Waste_Generation is the second in a series of animations based on Course of Empire, by Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole. The series explores the cultural framework through which we view landscape.

Focusing on links between plant life and pattern, ornament, design, and construction, it is about the tension between creative and destructive impulses. As we transition from industrial to digital culture, civilization continues to generate huge amounts of waste. At the same time, the creative and productive acts that generate that waste are dazzlingly and essentially human