Pitched Wave
Forest Hills, NY
2021, Junior, Art
Reflection
Reflection
I grew more self aware while creating this piece. I realized that most of the damage to this planet is done by millions and millions of humans. A message to the viewers of my artwork is to take in the fact that the damage to this planet is very real and that climate change is destroying the Earth at a very rapid speed. Based on my research on water, 8 million pieces of trash end up in the water, which brings about 2 trillion tons of trash ending up in the ocean in just one year. After understanding how much trash ends up in the ocean, I have been bringing and using my own fabric bag, so I won’t have to use plastic bags as much as I have before. This may not seem like a lot, but if just a few people start to use less plastic bags and more fabric/cloth bags, so much plastic can be prevented from ending up in the ocean.