These two pieces focus on Simazine, a pre-emergence herbicide that is used 58% percent of the time on a wide variety of crops and in hatcheries. Once introduced into the water cycle, Simazine is currently impossible to filter out completely and is a known carcinogen and health risk to humans. Simazine can provide conditions for a hearty harvest, but at what cost? These pieces were also successful in conveying the concept of the water cycle and contaminants in our water supply but in different ways. The bottle form is much more direct with the arrows literally on the clouds while the collection basket is more abstracted leaving the viewer to consider the process and what is needed in order to harvest a crop. The bottom of the forms refers to hot pads in the kitchen bringing the consumption of these contaminants into play. The bottle form refers more to an architectural structure than a drinking vessel (flask) and the cloud stopper being broken up into sections lends less towards utility. The basket handle makes the viewer aware of their interaction with the object and conveys in a literal sense the choice to continue contaminating the water supply.
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