Reflection

Reflection

A place I call home, Irvine, is a safe, clean, and an exceptional place to live. However, compared to the earlier years of living in Irvine, I always hear conversations about how it feels warmer and warmer every single day. Also, in the suburbs of Southern California, it usually never rains as much as it does now. For the past 2 months, it has been raining every single weekend; I have been worried and confused about the heavy rainfall. One thing that I learned while researching about climate change is that since warmer air can hold more water, climate change leads to heavy rainfall and extreme floods. Another thing that I learned from my own research on climate change is that people choose to be ignorant because they have a lack of understanding on how every little action can potentially harm the environment even when unintended to do so. For viewers, the main message that I want to convey in this artwork is that the issue of climate change should not be ignored. So, a mental note that I made to myself was to reduce my plastic consumerism and averting to renewable resources such as beeswax wraps, silicone food covers, or paper bags. I am also planning to join a club in my school about climate change awareness to bring forward ideas about using paper or metal straws, bamboo toothbrushes, or glass soap and detergent bottles in our everyday lives. I have used styrofoam, gathered from packaged products, to create the buildings and the environment because it is another nonrenewable and non-biodegradable resource. Additionally, styrofoam melts once it contacts acetone; therefore, I have used the materials to further inform the content I wish to depict which is the destruction of the city due to the increase in climate change. In this piece, the use of acetone reflects the product of climate change, acid rain, which eventually leads to destruction of the environment.