Reflection

In my Ocean Awareness contest piece, I drew an Atlantic sea creature food chain. I got my inspiration from my art teacher mentioning species diversity, which I automatically related to the food chain. Then I thought about how I could show the changes throughout time and how to highlight how urgent of a matter climate protection is. I came up with the idea to show that the sea creatures are dying because of rising sea temperatures and ocean acidification. I drew an old-fashioned train and factories at the bottom to represent our industrial past, which is the cause of ocean acidification and rising seawater temperatures. Then I drew sea creatures on the bottom and middle of the food chain and used the smoke produced from the factories and train to show how they are affected by it. Then I drew creatures at the top of the food chain as a skeleton to show that, because of ocean acidification, there is less food for them, and they are dying indirectly as a result. The plankton I drew symbolizes the gradual death of marine life because it's fading as we go towards the future due to ocean acidification.