Pinning+Down+the+Wild+Side

=**"Pinning Down the Wild Side"**= Since the beginning of mankind's existence, man has always viewed themselves as the supreme being on the planet earth. In the story of Genesis, God tells man that he was made to be superior to everything in the world and that he has the natural right to be. Throughout history, man has taken this view on the world and has tried to enforce his dominance on almost everything he can. Until about the eighteenth century, the main way man showed his dominance was through religious means. However, from the eighteenth century to modern day, man has tried to control the world and its inhabitants through means of technology, industry, and a-moral means. This has lead into problems that the "natural" world would never have faced without the progress of man. With man trying to make the world his, it has lead to problems such as pollution and exploitation of animals through cruel means.
 * Wyatt Ball 3A**

This box illustrates the problems man's advancements in technology and industry have caused. The main point of the box is to show that man's enforcement of his position in the world has caused a "enslavement" of the wild and natural side in the world. In the middle of the box, a penguin, which represents the natural and wild side of the world, is chained up against a wall of pins, which represent spikes of some sort, and locked onto the wall. What this shows is that man has given the natural world no freedom and in fact has taken the natural world and made it man's own prisoner. The pins show that man has also invented to tools and technology to enforce this. These advancements in technology have also inadvertently made another way to make the world bow down to man because massive amounts of pollution have become a global issue only man can solve.This has become man's fault in showing his dominance because he not only has became the supreme being in the world, but has also given no mercy or freedom to the other inhabitants of it as well. The 100% pin shows that man's ruling is 100% guaranteed. The title can also help one understand the meaning of the work clearly because man has pinned the wild side, or nature/the world, up against a wall of spikes that it cant get off of. This relates to Genesis and how God told man he was the ruler of all in the world, but still a subject to Him.

The Itunes card, the rubiks cube, the movie tickets, and the button represent the industries and the overall idea of commercialism and consumerism policies that have contributed to the "pinning down of the Wild Side". The Itunes card and the movie both represent the entertainment industry which have caused much pollution in the world. The button and rubiks cube represent the industrial and entertainment industries. The industrial industry is the number one industry that is totally for enslaving or having complete control over the natural world. It single-handily exploits the animals of the world and has caused much pollution in cities and the world that have killed millions of animals. The two golden paper clips are suppose to represent parallels of good and bad the industries of the world have contributed to the world. The ring in between them is showing circular motion that the world has gone through in rise and falls in the place of the natural world.

The way i got the idea for this project was through getting a bunch of random items and putting them in the box. There was really no creative process, but i got the idea when i saw the way that my items portray the explotaition of the natural world by the industries of commercialism and consumerism.