Eco-Art Competition 2022

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Thousand Miles of ‘Mountains’
By Yuchen Ling
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Division II (Ages 10-13)

While understanding the topic of Plant a seed, the image of Chinese ink paintings first came into my mind. I love their way of depicting nature that is both abstract and properly detailed. I tried to recreate the famous painting "Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers" by Wang Ximeng of the Northern Song Dynasty with the attempt to show the contrast of nature and man-made landscape. In my drawing, I deconstructed the natural landscape into four parts: dense woods, deforested woods, buildings under construction, and last ending up with the artificial mountain collaged with Medieval architecture. The action of collaging them is to highlight the harms of over-exploitation and deforestation. If we don't pay attention to the balance of urban expansion and "planting a seed", we will in the end live in a world that relies on machinery to sustain. I specifically emphasized this point by putting a semi-mechanical bird close to the camera to elicit the resonance of the viewer. Looking at the painting from a distance, the artificial constructions and machinery have already replaced the beautiful image of the ecosystem in ink paintings. Let's take action from here and construct the Thousand Miles of ‘Mountains’ in a better way.