Eco-Art Competition 2022

The inspiration of this work is from my life. During Christmas,I had a meal in a Japanese Japanese barbecue restaurant and I saw an iron grill with burning carbon. The shape of the grill was just like a cage. Then I recorded it as a photograph and I thought that maybe this kind of grill can imprison people like a cage. Because if people do not protect the environment, the victims will be themself. As well as I wanted to express the same idea by drawing the fire in the cages. The land which has the different color because I wanted to illustrate the dryness of the land when the earth do not have enough water. I also wanted to use the roots to show that if people still pollute the environment, these hazards will be more serious until they take root firmly on the earth and at that time, no matter what people do, it won't help anymore. In this artwork, I used traditional Chinese painting pigments. There are three reasons. Firstly, this kind of pigments does not pollute the environment so much because most of them come from minerals. Secondly, the traditional Chinese painting pigments is a little bit similar with the water color. For me I am familiar with the watercolor painting. However, these two kinds of pigments are not the exactly same. Traditional Chinese painting pigments have certain coverage and I think may be it will be much more suitable for my painting than other kinds of pigments. Finally, it is because I am a Chinese and I want to show some Chinese culture in my artwork. I also use some Chinese traditional elements in it ,such as the clothes.