Reflection

Reflection

The effects of climate change most directly influenced my art piece, but what inspired me most was how climate change affects mental health. The effects of climate change, specifically wildfires and high temperatures, changed my mental health and personality significantly in a short amount of time. Living in California, I experienced many wildfires that left the skies constantly red and orange and the air smoky. Wildfires and high temperatures made me feel frustrated and isolated from my friends. Being able to show how climate change affected me felt like a burden was lifted off of my shoulders because my art is a physical representation of how I feel. By researching climate change, I have learned that climate change not only affects the weather and how we live, but it also affects our mental health in different ways. I will engage with people and places that climate change, specifically wildfires, has destroyed and try to replant all of the life that was once present. The piece I drew shows how climate change, especially forest fires, affected my mental and physical health to the extent that I felt crazy. The first main part of my drawing shows me pulling out my hair to express frustration at the weather that is getting hotter and hotter and the isolation that I feel as days pass by. The second main part of my drawing shows me crying with my head down in my house that is depicted as a jail cell, feeling depressed and isolated from the world because of the fires.