Tail of a Metaphor

Tail of a Metaphor

Last modified: 08.12.2015

By Michell Lydholm Meldgaard, alberte husted larsen, vibeke Thorhauge stephensen, barnabás várszegi, ditte rolle & renata jensen

Based on the fact that the human race creates an enormous amount of waste and that the theme of this semester project is about “Turning Scrap into Sculpture”, we have created a meteorite of trash that is on its way to crash into earth. Millions of years ago, the mighty dinosaurs were made extinct by a crashing meteorite, and with that in mind we created a metaphorical meteorite, that is the symbol of the total destruction we are bringing upon ourselves. The human race is facing huge environmental problems because of our out-of-sight-out-of-mind mentality, and this is the problem we have addressed with our sculpture. The problems are coming, the question is when.