This piece was inspired by Societal experience in the inner city. Day in and day out coming from and going to jobs, different places meeting different people. It really asks the viewer where are you in this environment, being in the inner city where do you fit in and is living in a money driven society really healthy.
Self-identity is where a person reaches a position in their life, where they know and acknowledge who they are, what they want in their lives and has an idea where they want to go. Most importantly they realize and understand their true potential in all things or in what ever they want. Self-identity is one of the most important awareness a person can have. With self-identity you can allow yourself to be free from the chains of what people expect you to be and realize you just have to be your own expectation.
This Piece is meant to represent a person full filling there own destiny. The usage of the star sirius was a big influence because its considered to be the brightest star, influentially representing each persons own light. Artifacts of ancient civilizations have revealed that Sirius was of a great importance in astronomy, mythology and occultism. Mystery schools consider it to be “sun behind the sun” and, therefore, the true source of our sun’s potency. If our sun’s warmth keeps the physical world alive, Sirius is considered to keep the spiritual world alive.
This piece is about mother nature and its return from winter. As Winter is slowly being defrosted within her, spring start's to bloom through her hair.
This piece was inspired by the degradation that's happening to our enviornment. One of the main causes are green house gases that we emit, from our electronics, motor vehicles, and unnecessary gadgets which contributes to not only the earths natural green house gases but also its climate change as well. In October 2007 writer for National Geographic writes about the many varieties of bio fuels that can allow us living in America to stop using coal and other green house emitters for fuel and oil. Some searches for renewable fuels were ethanol, sugar cane ethanol and what are most reliable algae. Algae especially, its fast to produce, it doesn’t send carbon monoxide to the air, its eco friendly Another extreme cause to environmental changes was finding that sewage pathogens were being thrown on farmland
This piece was inspired by the loss that our environment has had with deforestation. The frog emulates itself as the victim, not only representing his species but all other species that have suffered the loss over there homes being cut down or burned down.
is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama, are lost each year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization
Deforestation occurs for many reasons: trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel (sometimes in the form of charcoal ) or timber, while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock, plantations of commodities and settlements. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss aridity. It has adverse impacts on biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide