Artist Statement
Polar-extinction
Acrylic painting
Polar bears were my center of focus for this piece. The reason being, polar bears are commonly used as a symbol for climate change as their habitat suffers the most extreme and astonishing effects of global warming. I mixed in a mythological aspect by giving them the horns of unicorns, representing the distance people have from what they don't believe and can't see. The absurdity of not caring is leading our society to an imagined, fake sense of safety, the polar bears are suffering yet their horns showing that people don't fully believe in that suffering.