Blame the Cow

Hayley Wyman


A realistic diorama that shows a flooded town or city to show vividly the disastrous consequences of rising sea levels. The idea of the project is to make a surrealist piece of art that shows a high level of water explaining that sea level rise has a least caused problems for the people who lived in the area it illustrates.
Sea levels have risen over 8 inches in Massachusetts since 1950, and global warming is the problem, we chose the name Blame The Cow because cow is the number one producers of methane gas.  Blame The Cow makes the consequences of rising sea levels vivid. In this small, intimate diorama that shows a high level of water explaining that sea level rise has a least caused problems for the people who lived in the area it illustrates. The scene shows of a flooded area, likely portraying a part some coastal town or city made of materials with diverse textures and colors, for realism, only fragments of the town are visible; the rest is depicted as underwater with waves washing along remaining protruding marks of humanity. In the diorama, which shows how much the water level has been elevated due to climate change that the water level is quite higher than it once was. The things that are The visible fragments in the miniature landscape, made of materials with diverse textures and colors for realism, included are include a tree and the roof of a house and a tree, on the top of the house in which a cow is stranded. The cow is meant to show that people in rural areas are also affected, and also as a reminder which shows how not just the people who lived in the city were affected. The cow is also meant to hint at the fact that cows are one of the biggest producers of greenhouse gases, as well as this they take up tons of space and trees are usually cut down for this space, which in turn causes the world atmosphere and oceans to heat up, which in turn causes the ice caps to melt causing and the sea level to rise.
By making this connection apparent through a vivid scene that viewers can relate to, Blame The Cow hopes to inspire viewers to advocate for broad policy changes favoring renewable energy over fossil fuels. The project attempts to engage with everyone showing a scene of wreckage caused by sea level rise which is something people are directly connected to. By showing this scenario, we are hoping to make people see how we damage the earth and find a way to stop. The diagram is made of many materials using textures and colors to make the miniature landscape realistic. The interaction with the project is mainly through sight precooking thought. When people turn poles on the outside of the box, they as a person cause waves moving and breaking to move and destroy the house and cow.

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Zoe Siegelnickel