No Time to Waste.
Eco-Art Competition 2021.

In this art piece, I explored how innocent animals are the victims of animal cruelty due to animal-related testing. Animals like rabbits, mice, rats, and monkeys are used to test all kinds of makeup and other beauty/hygiene products for safety and hypoallergenic properties before they are manufactured and sold to the consumer. Oftentimes, this testing is very painful for the animals and causes a lot of suffering and negative side effects (many times permanent). In these sorts of experiments, animals are forced to have substances injected or rubbed onto their bodies or have these substances inhaled or eaten. Afterward, the animals are exposed to further monitoring and testing before usually being killed, so that researchers can examine the effects of the chemicals on their tissues and organs. Believe it or not, there are still experiments like these being performed around the world (even though there are more accurate and humane procedures available for testing). There is "No Time to Waste" in trying to help these poor animals to free them from the current painful and stressful lives they are leading. This issue is important to me because I don’t like knowing there are animals currently living torturous lives behind bars. I wanted to bring attention to this issue with my drawing and raise awareness and hopefully get more people to use more non-animal tested products or prevent the continuation of such barbaric procedures. I made the beauty products and animal testing equipment in my drawing more vibrant and “cartoonish” so that the gloominess of the innocent creatures (which I drew in a more realistic style) could stand out. I also purposefully made the background a bright red to symbolize all the bloodshed and abuse all previous experiment animals have been through.