Reflection

Reflection

While I was doing my research, I learned that South Africa is facing dangerous, climate changing problems such as the lack of water, food prices going up because of extreme heat temperatures, crops not getting enough water and cracked up farmlands, which lead to no crops. I was inspired by the dried and cracked up farmlands of South Africa and I used them to raise awareness, by drawing an image of a women with cracks in her face. While I created my art piece, I thought about how climate change affects not only humans in my area and country but how it also affects innocent animals, that have no part in damaging the earth. I felt angry, sad and guilty, because we as humans are creating a toxic environment for innocent creatures, even though we claim that we don't. In my art piece I drew a woman with rivers flowing from her eyes representing tears and a tree that grew from her face, with roots reaching for water, representing her nose. The woman represents Africa, hence the name Mother of Africa. The message behind my piece is that there is still room for change, but people don't see that, and they continue to damage this wonderful place that we all call home, this is why Mother of Africa is crying because she is showing South Africa or Africa what we as human beings have done to her. We as a community can form small groups to clean up our streets, pathways, walkways, parks and around local shops and areas. Each of the group members will create posters to hang around their areas, to raise awareness and to help bring in more people to help tackle climate change. The community groups will go out every Friday, to speak to people about climate change and to educate people who have not heard about climate change.