My best friend and I went on a trip to the local thrift store. Any thrift store, I always find it interesting and I find so many patterns! This shoe rack alone, though it may not be repetitive pattern, I like how they've organized it in shades of brown, from the lightest to darkest. The element of art I would like to focus on is mass/volume. Though the pictures I've taken were displays of items, they could almost be a sculptures or work of art just how they were organized! Thrift stores have history and you are able to see what people have bought and thrown away. You see a piece of history in the clothes or items they've had. You can also see how society produces so much 'stuff' for consumers. In relation to mass/volume, humans are materialistic and we consume so much, it is incomprehensible.We certainly have moved from basic needs to luxuries items and continuing development of technologies just to improve our efficiency.

From an online article on consumerism as a global issue:

"The impacts of consumerism, positive and negative are very significant to all aspects of our lives, as well as our planet. But equally important to bear in mind in discussing consumption patterns is the underlying system that promotes certain types of consumption and not other types.