Eco-Art Competition 2022

With the current major issue of climate change, many irreversible changes are expected to happen to our environment, ruining our ecosystems and causing extinction for our animals and plants. My piece represents an extreme future from the consequences of plant extinction where people are forced to buy oxygen from vending machines and take care of them to be able to get the basic survival necessity of breathable air. The colors are focused on the trash and the plants to highlight the juxtaposition of the two on our earth. For the vending machine, major corporations exploit the need of oxygen and profit immensely at the expense of the general public by selling plants for exorbitant amounts, thus enforcing the sticky note of morality fluctuating but wealth not. I want to “plant the seed” of both environmental awareness and the possible consequences of continuing our harmful actions to discourage further degrading acts against our flora and fauna. When someone looks at my piece, I want them to feel unsettling fear at how fast this future may come upon us. I used water colors, acrylics, colored pencil, and pens. In particular, climate change is important to me because many of the major effects such as rising sea levels and temperatures will be devastating for my generation. While wealthy corporations run by the older generation profit from emitting greenhouse gasses, they are destroying the earth that is left to their children with no remorse. Money is king and when the next generation is left to deal with the fallout we must find ways to save our earth before it’s too late for our future.