Proposal - Clint Stevens

Outside of town, in at least two areas that I'm aware of, there are dump sites, unofficial areas where people dump construction materials, slabs of broken cement, old Christmas trees, tree trimmings, dead animals, and miscellaneous garbage. What I would like to do is collect items from these areas and bring them into the Alt Space, make it look like a dump site essentially. Possibly also take photographs of the actual dump sites, landscape photographs to show the contrast between the human landscape made of garbage and death caused by humans, and the natural landscape. 

I want this to be conceptual in raising awareness of how unusual and wrong this is. To make a comparison about how the garbage shouldn't be in a gallery, just as it shouldn't be out in nature. To create a discussion about how maybe one of these dump sites might actually start. Who is the first person to dump garbage in a spot, and then why do others see the garbage and instead of cleaning it up, they add to it. 

The stuff we gather could either be arranged in a manner of random disarray to mimic the actual dump sites, or it could be organized into a more of a sculptural piece. I'd like to bring some kind of dead thing in too, not sure how that would work since I don't know if a rotting corpse would be very appealing to viewers, even if it would get the point across pretty well. but maybe just some bones, I think that would be just as effective. 

This would cost virtually nothing, other than if we printed photographs or made other art based on the dump sites to mount on the walls. 

another thought I had was to maybe do paintings on the garbage that we bring in, either graffiti style, or traditional. 

there are a lot of ways we could go with this, but its a good option that everyone could participate in, and with our busy schedules, this could be done in about 1 or 2 days if we worked on it for a few hours each day.