Cow on the Cob

For our environmental piece of art, we wanted to address the issue of corn.  Since corn has become a mono-crop which a crop that is grown repeatedly on the same piece of land for maximum yield, soil has become depleted because crops are not rotating on the land.  The lack of nutrients in the soil has led to the greater use of fertilizers and pesticides.  There are negative environmental consequences for fertilizer runoff into bodies of water and both fertilizers and pesticides can harm surrounding animal life.   We decided to make a cow out of corn since the increase in corn production has led to the use of corn as a primary feed for livestock even though it causes health problems for the livestock.  We used paper bags we had from HEB as the material to draw the outline of the cow.  Then we used honey to stick the corn together inside our outline.  We chose to put our cow outside of the BMH casitas in order for the squirrels, birds, and other wildlife to have something to eat.  Hopefully as people walk past our corn cow, they might stop to think about corn in general, and maybe even see the environmental connection in our art.

                                                                              

 

- Alexa Ferguson and Victoria Turrentine