Rhetoric Work

For my initial exploration of practical work I played with a few ideas different approaches to commenting on the waste created in the food industry. 

In this piece I took photos of pieces of rubbish from my bin and layed them out like a magazine spread, but instead of listing the product at the bottom I put a fact about packaging pollution. By doing this I was trying to bring the consumption of food and excesses packaging into a editorial space, thus comparing the grotesque with the fashionable and desirable which is often equally as wasteful. 

In this piece I photographed a cropped in section of a Wellington city council rubbish bag. By doing this I was trying to capture something that is over looked and dicarded as beautiful. I chose the quote by Gabriel. Y and Lang. T to comunicate how engrained and almost inescapable over consumption is in modern society. As I am wanting to comment on the negative effects of over consumption within the food industry I feel this work does not back up my argument, but it was a useful experiment. 

After some research into waste within the food industry I was suprised to find out that most of the energy used is in food production. Because of this the collosal scale that food is wasted is much more harmful to our environment than the pollution from packaging. In this work I chose to use an infograph approach because this information made me re-think the forms waste within the food industry is made.