Artist Statment

Leo Tabalon
Artist Statement
My essential question falls under the lines of “how do your daily actions really effect the environment” and “if going green really does have a significant impact on the environment?” Our video is supposed to be humorous satire with an artistic video design embedded into the project. The “green guy” is a symbol for all the going green posers who really have no clue of what their actions effect the environment. Its one thing to care about the environment and it’s another thing to be aware and to take action and steps for a better environment.
The fact of the matter is every single thing we do has an impact on the environment and this main character in our video has no clue of what he is really doing, he is falling under the trend of going green. The little things he does in the movie like drinking a lot of water bottles and leaving the sink on while he’s brushing his teeth all have an impact on the environment. Like when he throws away the papers it’s like he doesn’t even know a thing and he’s totally thinking he’s helping the environment. The funny thing is that people don’t actually realize those kinds of things, they don’t realize that by a ton of paper is equivalent to 17 trees and by just recycling they can save and reuse a significant of that thus having a good impact on the environment.
Another thing is that water bottles are being consumed in the United States at an alarming rate. To be exact every second 1,500 plastic water bottles are being consumed and about 80% of that total is not being recycled. What are we really doing with all those water bottles? Like the guy in the video almost every day he drinks a water bottle and that will add up to be a huge number.
I hope that by watching this video you think more about what you are really doing every single day of your life and that just little things such as recycling or driving less, even just turning off the sink when possible all can have a good effect on the environment.