The object(s) I chose to work with are the Oil Drum and the Oil Pump. Being from Alaska, these two things bear alot of meaning to me. Alaska has a fragile economic system that would entirely collapse were it not for oil. However, this brings about alot of really touchy issues. Shouldn't we try to steer ourselves away from oil, we are after all at peak right now and things are only going to get scarce from here. But, then what of my state, are we to let our state die out? Without this income where would my state be?



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Alaska doesn't have many sources of income, sure, we get lots of tourists and fishing industries account for a certain amount of state profits, but the real kicker is our natural resources, oil and natural gas. Of course, this becomes a fairly touchy subject amongst us. Some people feel that, since oil is our only real major source of income, that we should exploit it the the utmost extent, while others believe that the state itself is our biggest resource, and that we should respect the land and only drill for oil in areas where it won't damage the land so much. I personally feel that without oil, our state would NOT exist, but at the same time as we try to pull oil from our state were damaging land and ecosystems, an example most people are familiar with is ANWR. So, how do we find a medium between these two things? I feel that our state is really blinded, and that people our only looking at the land as a source of income, and that most anyone isn't seeing the beauty of the land, they ONLY see the oil.

I'm hoping that in my project I can describe some kind of landscape that can ake us think more about oil and the land it comes from, because alot of people in our country can't seem to differentiate between the two.