Eco-Art Competition 2022

My piece it an impressionistic style painting of a flower growing from the cut stump of a tree. This painting is meant to symbolize the strength of nature to overcome and restore life and heal old wounds but it’s also meant to make people feel guilty. To know that this tree was cut down because of you. This beautiful tree that may have grown for the last century from only a seedling It’s branches part of so many stories just to be cut to make a stack of paper or to make space for a new condominium. The flower is Borage which symbolizes courage. It shows the strength of nature to find away around our meddling by planting a seed of its own. I firmly believe for every tree cut people should plant two more. Deforestation and global warming is very important issue to me because I love the outdoors. I have to go outside at least once everyday to feel truly happy. This painting is actually inspired by a tree stump I saw by my house with a sapling growing out of the center it was beautiful but also sad. I used impressionist style because i want people to understand the basic essence of the painting and it’s meaning but also have the wild and flowing feel that nature in it’s true form has. I don’t want people to just sit and stare at my work for hours I want them to see it and move on but remember it in the back of their mind and keep thinking about what it means to them for a long time after. Then maybe it will motivate them toward more eco friendly habits in the future, we all have a part to play in the recovery and very little thing counts.