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Bottled V.1
Bottledproject
In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin said, “the wars of the next century will be fought over water” [source: Village Voice].
The plastic bottle is a symbol of controversy. It the first worlds it a status symbol of health and wealth paying 1,000 times more than for tap. In third worlds it is a one of the leading causes of pollution. In 2002, approximately 31% of soda bottles were recycled, while only 11% of water bottles are due to lack of deposit required on water bottles. This is shocking when you consider that bottled water is the second most popular beverage to soda.
Water is a resource that will become scarce in our near future. The last war fought over water was 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamia [source: Leslie]. While religion and oil have driven recent and current wars. Water is a resource that a started current and future conflicts both on the local and global level. The bloody conflict in Darfur, Sudan, that began in 2003 and killed as many as 400,000 Africans, started, in part, over access to a diminishing water supply [source: The Guardian].
The bottledproject series is of sculptures that literally build off each other. Each incarnation is an opportunity to expand the exploration of the meaning of these plastic bottles for myself, for you , our culture and our planet.