Eco-Art Competition 2022

The theme "Plant the Seed" as a figurative language that we plant a seed to bring the awareness of an environmental problem to society. The problem I illustrated in the artwork is how marine debris or plastic waste pollution harms animals, people, and our earth at the same time. Marine debris has been a massive problem for sea animals. As shown in work, because the trash is everywhere in the ocean, whales can quickly eat them while eating prey. This can cause damage to the whale's digestive system and even cause death. The world's largest whale, the shark whale, is endangered because of polluted water and food. Also, in the picture, ​​​sea lions are covered up with garbage, and turtles are entangled in fishing nets. All of this pollution can affect the safety of animals. Marine debris affects not only sea animals but also humans. Imagine all the seafood (sea animals) that we eat every day had lived in this kind of environment. There is likely trash or bacteria that came from this trash in their stomachs. All of these germs will automatically go into our bodies. You can see a girl standing in the middle, this represents how humans were seeing the pollution problem as an outsider, but the trash in her body shows that it had already affected us as well. I used mixed media: acrylic, watercolor, and colored pencil. I think this entry can raise the awareness of water pollution and call on people to use less plastic material and avoid throwing rubbish everywhere. We were not only saving marine animals but also ourselves.