this piece is an exploration of both personal and cultural themes, exposing our exploitative relationship with our environment on a personal level and, by extension, as a society or species. In this sense, it is a symbol of the by-products of our capitalist consumerism, with the center reflecting the role of the media; alerting us, ridiculing us, perhaps even judging us - the media becomes a collective conscience that binds us to our own environmental mortality. It represents our inability as a global society to take responsibility for our insatiable greed