Reflection

Reflection

When I first started this piece I was at a loss. I had no idea what to draw or what ocean pollution really meant. As I embarked on a mad search to discover how my life affects this issue and on a larger scale the lives of the human race, I was astonished. Our oceans serve as another world. Stretching across the entire globe, they provide a home for an ever-growing plethora of marine species and give an escape for some from the hectic life on land. Below the waters all the madness dissipates into a rhythmic soft hum, and one can feel truly tranquil in this utopian wonderland. Somewhere along the way though, the separation between land and sea faded and aspects of our lives got washed up by the tide. Our actions came to become responsible for 80% of marine pollution, globally. Bottles, cans, and wrappers strangled the sense of peacefulness and destroyed any semblance of the blue world we had envisioned. When I finally grasped a sense of what this issue meant and the consequences our effects have, I immediately got to work.

In this piece I tried to portray the gravity of ocean pollution and how our daily actions can be transformed into a matter of life or death for an innocent sea-dwelling creature. Ocean pollution came to have a greater meaning for me by the end of my journey and I strive to inspire our generation before it’s too late with this piece.