Overconsumption

Every week I get these annoying paper ads, constantly promoting consumption, stuffed inside my mail box.
So instead of throwing them away I decided to make a better use of these paper ads by recycling them into art piece...

What do the Moai statues have to tell us? What lessons can we learn from the tragedies of Easter Island? The island was once rich of natural resources. However, as the population grew, Easter Island leaders used Moai statues as their symbol of fame and power. Numerous trees were cut to move the statues and the building of the statues lead to depletion of natural resources of the island... Today Moai statues symbolize scars of nature done by human greed. The island warns us about a cautionary tale of the cultural and environmental dangers of overconsumption...