Portfolios

Artist Statement Up In Flames Mixed media sculpture: Turmeric anthotype burned paper, cardboard The idea for my artwork came from deforestation issues, wildfires, and loss of habitats. My piece is meant to make viewers understand that pollution, global warming and unethical deforestation all play a role in the severe and accelerating extinction crisis in many species of birds. Nearly half of all species in decline and over 500 at risk of extinction within the next century. The choice of my materials was important to me because rather than using a chemical printing technique I wanted to go a more natural…

Artist Statement Look Away Collage: Paper, ink, pencil, and watercolor My art piece demonstrates how climate change affects not just our surroundings, but ourselves as well. Showing how that even if you desire change, just one person in billions as a stand-alone can’t change anything, and this piece demonstrates how that helplessness eats away at you.

Artist Statement Galactic Earth Watercolor on paper In this watercolor, the Earth represents the heart of a woman. Because Earth is the only known planet that supports life, it symbolizes the heart as the essential organ that sustains a human being. The woman's hair is depicted as water, emphasizing Earth’s water-rich composition and its dependence on water.

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…

Artist Statement A Window into the Future Mostly acrylic paint, with a very small portion of permanent marker I decided to address my concern with what humans are doing to our home, our planet with in this piece of art. In this painting I referenced Salvador Dali's masterpiece, but added my own twist to address climate change. Th painting shows a starving polar bear in a contaminated "dead zone". Their habitat is shrinking fast. This is of what our future could look like, and it has started to look like this. I also changed Dali's melting clock to our planet…