The seed

In this scene I wanted to show a dystopic reality that reflects the social, economic, and environmental negative impacts caused by the abuse of human society behaviors during this year, and through our history as modern society.

The idea of this image representation was how us as human beings changed the way we interact, the idea of seeing each other from the distance, having empathy and curiosity, feeling nostalgic because of not being allowed to have human contact, but at the same time being indifferent in a Machiavellian way for what could happen to the others.

In the economic side, the way many people find new ways to survive, reusing what was considered as trash to reconstruct their habitats, it’s a new growing reality for some, but has been the way underdeveloped cities are being built for many years.

One of the principal purposes is to show the effects of modern society pressure in natural environments as well, arid places with lack of oxygen, that are the vestige of the green that some time ago existed there, almost dead places.

A big reference used for this project was the song "the seed" by Aurora, as I consider it sums up all the concept. An important sentence of this song "You cannot eat money" is a representation of a wakeup call to make us think about our priorities as society, having in mind the actual environmental situation. The phrase “Through dirt and shadow I grow” pretends to represent the symbol of vindication and hope by the little tree inside that weird glass container.