Final Project

For my final project, I found the theme of "Progress" to be very associated with my Archaeology major. Through such rapid evolution that humans have endured, we have become out of balance with the earth. Technology has enhanced our culture beyond where we should be compared to the pattern that we had been following in the normal evolutionary change. The last 100 years have made so much "progress" that we are completely out of wack with our universe. An interesting topic that comes up in archaeology is our characteristics that we have that have developed from adaptations throughout our histories. More specifically, we see that humans are typically scared of spiders. Why is this? What from our past made us internally frightened by the bug? There is no logical explanation from our current living to be more frightened of such a small creature than we are of a large vehicle. For our current situation in life and current placement in the evolutionary scale, this does not fit. This shows that in our past as human beings, there was some reason to be logically frightened of spiders because they had caused us some damaging effects. Since we progressed so quickly, our internal adaptations are not caught up with us. So we remain afraid of spiders instead of what should technically scare us in the world that we live in.

On this note, I used all metal kinds of material for this project and made it based on the "King Kong" image of some magnificent creature trampling the city while everyone flees in fright. I used a giant spider in the gorillas place to represent the irrational fear of spiders that we have as a culture. The metal signifies the technological advancements that has made progress used simultaneously with infrastructure. The growing skyscrapers continue to lead us into this unbalanced state and further from our internal adaptations.