ENVRIONMENTAL SCANNER

ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNER

MAY 8,2014 

The environment is an important aspect of life. It tells the history of how a certain community has grown over the years and wetther or not has kept the standards of a clean environment. Living in San Francisco throughout my entire life, I have witnessed of how the city has pushed for a cleaner atmosphere. Fortunately for me, I live in a community that strongly emphasizes of maintaining a cleaner living space, or I thought I did.   

            While walking around my local park, I noticed that there were many leaves, wood twigs, and flower buds lying all over the place.  I picked up number of them ranging in size and color. In addition, I was also surprised that I found a half bitten apple lying on the ground. I did something that I rarely do, picked it up and put in my bag. Finally I went to my classroom and scanned the objects, which is where my creative side started too kicked in.

            When I viewed the actual scan on the computer, I noticed that was negative space everywhere which would distract the viewers from the main idea. What really frustrated me the most was that rather than walking a few more paces to the trash can, someone instead just threw the apple on the ground. In order to get that point across, I enlarged the apple and inserted in right in the center, emphasizing my frustration. To get the rid of the negative space, I duplicated the leaves that I thought stood out the most and began to make a pattern of repetition. I also did that with the wood twig to not only get rid of the white space, but also try to add more detail into my message. This is an example of contrasting two different objects but correlating them into one big idea.

            My main message in this project is to maintain a safe and clean environment. Enlarging the apple, duplicating both the green leaf, and twig, I am unifying all three objects. This is my way of telling people that it is possible to live in a clean environment if you put your heart in it. So whenever you say litter lying in the ground, be a good Samaritan, pick it up, and depending on what type of litter it is either compost or recycle it.