Untitled, Thalia Koufidis, 2020
I've always appreciated our environment. As I got older, I realized that not everyone felt the same way. My artwork demonstrates how our society is treating the environment and how the consequences of littering, specifically with plastic, are more severe than people realize. Through my artwork, I want to show everyone that by littering, we are harming our air, plants, and animals. I manipulated my image to achieve a gloomy and sickly mood in the atmosphere. By photoshopping plastic wrap around a few trees, I wanted to show people that when we start to litter, the trees are suffocating and suffering. The blue deer symbolize how the animals in our environment are suffocating from the plastic. My goal is to help people understand through my artwork, how we're harming the environment and that we all need to do our part to keep it clean.