© 2010 Ko Nakatsu

I created this image for a Sustainability competition.

We all have dreams, including future generations. Save the world and give us a chance to follow them

The poster text reads: “Live sustainably so all dreams left to dream, can be. It took thousands of years of dreaming to fly. Oh what freedom it is to ascend to the heavens as mortals, to breathe in the clouds, and to walk amongst rainbows! Our celebration of the possibilities will be cut short without a sustainable world. Sustainability isn’t about you or me. Sustainability is so that the human race can continue to imagine new dreams. The future versions of you and me have dreams we haven’t even thought about about that need to make it real. If we disappear, so do dreams.”

I love airplanes. It’s one of the greatest dreams to become a reality in human history. There are many more dreams that wants to become a reality, tomorrow and a thousand years from now. The designs we bring forth has to be sustainable, if we are to have a future of dreams.

The Image:
I took the airplane photograph at a park near DC airport. The background pattern is the patent image of the Wright Brothers plane stretched out so that it resembles city streets or clouds or whatever you think.

The Process For the Phrase:
I first came up with the following phrase
“Civil Rights took one guy and the will of a society to follow the dream. Sustainability will take one person and the will of the society to follow the dream. Sustainability starts with YOU.”

I shortened it to this:
“Without sustainability, all dreams left to dream, cannot be.”

but wanted a more positive statement so I came up with this:
“Take action, for all dreams left to dream, wants to be.”

which led to
“Live sustainably so all dreams left to dream, can be.”