Reflection

Reflection

I live in Canada and am someone who loves animals and hates to see them go extinct, so I feel especially sympathetic towards polar bears. They are one of the many animals that are currently suffering from habitat loss and facing extinction as a result. Global warming melts the ice, which means polar bears have less hunting ground, resulting in starvation and death. As I look on the internet, there are hundreds of pictures of the poor emaciated creatures, their bones showing through their fur which has lost its sheen. Global warming will bring pain to all, including myself. The amount of natural disasters like tsunamis and floods will grow, and I fear this greatly. Chaos and unrest throughout the whole world will spread and increase. When I grow up, I’m scared to think that my own future children may never get a chance to see these magnificent animals that we take for granted. I chose to create a sculpture because it's three dimensional, which I believe will produce a more visceral reaction in viewers and make them really experience just how tragic our reality is. The painted clay hand is shown with several forms of pollution on top of it, such as garbage heaps, factory chimneys, dirty sewage water, deforested areas, parts of computers and also cars. As you can see, the hand is greedily grabbing onto the last piece of ice left on earth, with a skinny mom and her baby polar bear lying down in despair. This is supposed to directly represent what we bring to our world as humans and how people just want more and more. The fish bowl shows that the polar bears have no way to escape, but to face their cruel end. Although my piece seems very sad, it is actually supposed to wake people up and get them to start taking action. Even though we humans are the ones who have done the damage, we equally have the ability to restore our world with our latest technology. Using this, I hope that the world will become free from global warming.