Reflection

This piece depicts four climate change heroes - Txai Surui from Uganda, Greta Thunberg from Sweden, David Attenborough from England, and Vanessa Nakate from Brazil - all in a broken mirror with the viewer piecing the scattered shards together, attempting to unify them. Even with individual efforts, the issue of climate change will never be solved without unity and joint effort. The hole in the middle is a space meant for the viewer, a place for future and current generations to once more unify the mirror that is our world and put an end to climate change once and for all. I was inspired when I was walking home one day and looked up at the sky through the tree leaves - the thought of all the natural life in this world being gone one day due to our own actions is soul crushing, and I wanted to convey that. Art has always interested me as it is a device to communicate when words don't do the topic justice. What I am trying to convey with this piece is that if our efforts to stop climate change are not globalized and unified, then all we will be left with is a broken world.