imarcallini_projectone

I'm having trouble committing to an idea for this project so far. I have a handful of ideas, but I'm not sure which to lean towards. I am interested in the idea of evolving species, and new species of animals being created due to migration. I also find myself interested in the thought of running out of our natural resources and what we would do to combat this, (as we're not really doing much now and it seems to be inevitable).
I havn't done much research and have no unquestionably factual information on the matter of evolving animal species besides hearsay. I may look into it and decide to go with that route.
However, turning to the idea of the loss of resources, including the lack of plants, I know a bit about and have researched. This will quite obviously effect the way of living. If plant life and other natural habitats begin to fail, this will blow out the entire living existence on Earth, beginning with the very bottom of the food chain. This would be a hard circumstance to combat once our environment is too far gone, and could be impossible to rejuvenate. I have seen video art pieces done on this matter by an artist named Kelly Richardson. I found inspiration of this idea through her post-apocalyptic themed work. For example, she created a scene  with a dry, empty landscape and created almost AR looking trees and had them swaying as if wind was blowing. Basically to set a scene of familiarity in an unknown location. I think the idea of creating a false reality to mimick nature would be very interesting.

Richardson, Kelly. “The Erudition.” Kelly Richardson, 2010, kellyrichardson.net/project/the-erudition/.

Jowit, Juliette. “World Is Facing a Natural Resources Crisis Worse than Financial Crunch.”The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 28 Oct. 2008, www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/oct/29/climatechange-endangeredhabitats.