Reflection

Reflection

For this piece, I specifically chose to increase awareness of soil and air pollution by demonstrating how piles of littered trash, factory fossil fuel emissions, and wastewater are damaging Earth’s beautiful nature. As I witnessed nature shrinking around me, I incorporated a human hand undoing a zipper of the vest (symbolizing the environment) into the piece as a way of representing the reversal of these actions ruining the Earth. Mitigating the impacts of climate change is in our hands, up to our choices and mindsets. To maximize the significance of my poster and allow people to feel the direct impacts of manmade pollution, I applied a sharp contrast to my execution of the piece. Specifically, the gray sky and clouds of the polluted Earth parted by the zipper contrast the clear blue sky, while the factories and dark trash piles contrast the swaying green trees and bright flowers. In the middle of the poster, I inserted an eye-catching red STOP sign, further emphasized by the human hand attempting to pull the zipper down. Additionally, by purposely drawing the human hand much bigger than the doe in the background, I wanted to show how even our smallest actions have power that could either save or harm our innocent companions in nature. I drew from the landscapes with which I'm most familiar, but throughout the process of constructing the piece, I couldn't help but realize that what is depicted in the factory scene is polluting the ocean. It became clear that the actions we take as human beings can have drastic effects on marine environments we aren't even aware of, on oceans that might even be clear on the other side of the world.