Pre-Environmental Project

I'm not entirely clear on what I will do for my project.  I know for tomorrow I will bring my video camera and SLR along with a roll of red and black string.  In the beginning I wanted to do something with people.  Maybe gathering as many friends and participants as possible and bring them out to demonstrate numbers.  But now I'm changing my mind.  I also had the idea of touching upon the idea of missing persons.  Since the finding of my friend's remains in a wooded area I've had a bit of a fear of woods.  Or rather a fear of what I might find there.  Paired up with you can't walk through heavily wooded areas anymore without the risk of being abducted or bothered, its something I want to talk about.  I don't want the project to be depressing in any way, maybe just a comment on the fact that this happens or why as humans we allow it.


Below are stats taken off of MissingKids.com

The U.S. Department of Justice reports

-  797,500 children (younger than 18) were reported missing in a one-year period of time studied resulting in an average of 2,185 children being reported missing each day.
-  203,900 children were the victims of family abductions.
-  58,200 children were the victims of non-family abductions.
-  115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. (These crimes involve someone the child does not know or someone of slight acquaintance, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.)

Its disturbing in many ways.  I also wanted to use this in relation to the park and a nature area because I somewhat feel like we need to get back to nature to heal us of this perverse problem.  Purely my opinion, but I feel that we've become so detached, so disensitized while living in a society ruled by images, that its no wonder some of us have lost touch and gone bonkers enough to abduct a child or commit a vicious crime.  Of course its not entirely that easy to chalk it up to that, but I do feel like its a contributing factor.  If we could get back to nature, notice while walking the sound of the rustling grass or crunching leaves rather than the music we are blasting on our Ipods, cherish the fact that we can still feel the cool biting breeze rather than ignore it and hurry to the heated building.  Enjoy digging in the dirt again like we did when we were kids.  I think it would help heal many of our problems.

Even if I don't address the missing persons issue, maybe I'll address the disconnection problem I think we all face or have faced at one time...