“Saving one animal wont change the world, but it will change the world for that ONE animal” Unknown quote.
It wasn’t my intention to write a post about endangered animals at this time, when the COP26 Summit is being discussed in Glasgow. I have always had an infinity with animals from a very young age, it was a family joke that my first word was “dog”. I grew up watching David Attenborough documentaries with my parents, who despite not being particularly animal orientated, nurtured my love for the animal world. I was always passionate about dogs in particular and would read so many books about them I learnt about most of the breeds of the world by the age of 10 (and I hated reading!).
My other love was drawing and I would draw animals, made up animals and creatures giving them unusual names, my friend and I made up an animal called a Kabuchei which, from memory, was a small predator like animal with a large squirrel tail. I would draw dragons, dinosaurs mythical animals liked winged tigers who could escape from the hunter and fly to a new land, somewhere which protected them.
I did a project at school for my A Levels of a mono print of a screaming monkey, cutting it up into squares and mixing it with screaming human faces. I still have this. Little did I know then what an impact the project would have on me. It symbolizes the relationship between man and primate and how were treating the animal world. The screams symbolise the words that animals cannot speak and how they are silenced. Mixing it with the human screaming face symbolized that we, humans, need to be thier voice, fight and scram for them.
This was where I was going to attach a photo of the art work. I went up stairs into the loft to look for it (sadly all my art work and materials are still in the loft due to moving). But then discovered we had a leak in the loft. Luckily it went on the lids of some plastic boxes and nothing has been damaged. Once I find it i will pop it in here #reallifeofablogger
Enough is enough and the bigger picture is that not only with a lot of out specie’s be extinct for future generations but our world is crying out, we only need to look back at all the photos and articles how how the earth healed in such a short space time time through Lockdown. The rivers in Venice were clearer and seaweed could be seen in them for the first time, in years. It was also said the air was also less polluted since canal boats and boat traffic has stopped to try and curb the COVID out break. But there was also another side of this, people acted more selfishly once restrictions were starting to lift from litter pollution, awful behaviour with out environment etc. I prayed that we would see how Mother Nature could start to heal in such a short time that we would come out the other side with more knowledge. Hopefully the summit will have better results.
Through lockdown last year I created a series of art that demonstrated the destruction of certain species. I was very lucky to be brought an iPad Pro for my birthday so got straight on it and created the following pieces.
My next step is to paint the Ephemeral series to give them a different feel and dimension. What do you think? Should I go for it?
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