The series represents my personal beliefs on the idea of money and greed. It is widely known that money and corruption has been at the heart of many of histories’ tragedies and horrors. This is not a new idea. However in today’s capitalist dominated society and globalization, the entire world is quickly becoming indoctrinated into this ideology. As this occurs the consumer society has only gotten worse in the United States. This is because the U.S. is on the front line in the push towards a totally materialistic corporate controlled society with principles dictated by marketing. If the world is to continue on this path it will surely reach oblivion. The planet, people, and resources cannot maintain this course and survive. My pieces focus on the idea that money and greed have entrapped people into a system that will inevitably destroy itself and that classical economics is the ultimate doomsday weapon. This end result is brought on by our own creation. It’s a sort of roundabout system that has us trapped in a spiral to the bottom. It is a perpetual motion machine, a system that needs no external interference to run its course. No one controls it but the consumer, who is trapped by the corporate CEO, who is fueled by the consumer. This is a never ending cycle that is unlikely to be broken since almost all forms of “credible” mass media are controlled by corporate agendas. That is not to say corporate managers are not to blame, their contribution far out weights that of the average consumer. Therefore the system seems completely unstoppable, except for that of major cataclysmic change. Change that cannot be brought on by a lone freedom fighters. In the work I try and compare the system with that of the horrors of war. The consumers are merely soldiers fighting for the cause because it’s all they’ve been told. Some who stand up to this are mercilessly squashed by the machine. Victory in the war is that of profit and production that destroys the planet. The completion of the “machines” task is merely self destruction. The internal moves made by the machine are carefully calculated strategies to win the war, as if it were a game. The pyramids that exist through out the pieces merely represent the invisible forces at works, or in other words the corporate contribution and classic economics in the equation. The gritty war photographs help instill the since of doom and atrocity. As well the money is this ultimate idea of symbolism, what the machine stands for. In each there is a certain component that creates the end destruction. This is triggered by the completion of the machines function.