Reflection

Reflection

The mirror and the sea have always been similar: they reflect our image. When you stare at the sea, you feel like reaching your arms out and touching it. However, with the advancement of technology and human life, our ocean is starting to look less and less similar to our mirrors. It's being polluted, with our reflection dissolving within. When I look at the mirror, it reflects at me, the once pure water. I reach my hands out trying to visualize the happiness. That inspired me to create a work where the good and the bad connect, with the bad realizing the happiness of the truth, hence connecting and changing itself. I felt sadness and desperation while drawing. The drawing does not mean that the ocean will look at the mirror and correct itself. Rather, it's a message for everyone to connect to the harsh reality of ocean degradation and change for the better to save nature. While researching, I found that much aquatic life dies because of pollution every year. That is why the personified earth in the left (inside the mirror) has aquatic life, while the personified earth in the right has dried up. When both versions connect, the mirror shatters—a sign of good luck in some places. Now that I have learnt more about the ocean, I will treat water more preciously and remind people at the beach to throw away their garbage.