KyleH

Pollution. I believe pollution is a major issue in this world today and is unique to humans because we are the most invasive species on earth and the cause of it all. Humanity is single handedly destroying an entire planet and it’s inhabitants with an ignorance so extreme that many do not even realize it is happening until someone points it out and provides them with proof. As you can see, I feel very strongly about this topic and wanted to devote a project to it. When I was little, I saw a logging truck driving down the road overflowing with trees that were wider than any other’s I’d ever seen, cut, stacked, and still green. Obviously, someone else hadn’t been as impressed as I had been at their appearance when I imagined the great giant trunks stretching into the sky, hundreds of years old, and toppled by metal machines belching black smoke that only they could fix. I’ve watched documentaries about scientists trying to duplicate the work of a tree by artificial means, but the solution is much simpler and has always been there. My biggest problem I had to face in this project was time. I had high aspirations for my statuette and wanted to do a lot more with it, but I was reduced to making a small lumpy man wearing a gas mask. I made my project simple, and did what I could in the time I was given. If I were able to do this project in more time, I would have smoothed out his limbs and body, colored the man better, had a better setting for it to be in, and would have placed more detail in everything I did like I usually do. I’ve had to think a bit about how to make this piece excessively simple while still striving to do a descent job. My piece is one of symbolism, with the figure in a gas mask to show that he cannot breathe, and to show that we are, in a way, waging a chemical war with nature. I do not have a background to show that it doesn’t matter what is behind us in history or personal past, all that matters is the dangerous situation we are in now. I have used a trap to show that we are trapping ourselves, and in bringing destruction to our world only destroys us. I am not sure if others would see a little project in the same manner, but that is what I tried to imply. If I was able to do this project again, I would have worked harder on fine details. This project was from Kyle Hendrick. Critique of the Social Issue Pollution. I believe that the artist in this painting has smoke from a factory to show that we are polluting, and he has a long line of workers molded together at it’s entrance to show that we conform in consent to this. The skeleton is death looking at a little globe of happy people to show that they are being destroyed by their own standard of living. The artist clearly believes that pollution is wrong, and that we put the world in death’s hands so we may have things we do not need.