This image illustrates the devastation of coral bleaching, and the passing of manmade toxins and poisons from ocean parents to their young.
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This image is inspired by the pollution of micro plastics and the damage that it causes to marine life, leading to coral bleaching, acidic waters, and the ingestion of toxins from marine life who pass these poisons on to their young. In this image you can see patches where the colour is starting drain from the ocean.
Two colour ways. I have been testing colour palette, composition, and the application of textures. Whilst aesthetically pleasing as a surface design, it doesn't have the same meaning and richness in content as I have not included any reflection upon micro plastics pollution.
Lately I have been focusing on ocean pollution and the destruction that it causes to marine life. 🐠🐋Small organisms, like plankton, ingest the toxic chemicals found in plastics, radioactive waste, human waste, and pesticides that have streamed from the land into the sea. 🤢 These chemicals are hard to break down so remain in the planktons system. Bigger ocean creatures that eat lots of plankton subsequently intake a higher concentration of toxins. As the food chain progresses through to larger mammals, this level of toxicity increases until it reaches a large mammal such as a polar bear, where the concentration of chemicals has increased by 3 billion times more than when the plankton that initially ingested it! Coral bleaching is another horrendous consequence of manmade pollution as plastics become entangled in the corals, and allows diseases to infect marine life. This causes the coral stress by blocking out light and oxygen, and the corals loose algae from their tissues, allowing pathogens to take hold and once infected, they are drained of their colour 😞.
Is this not the most awful tragedy? Is it not our responsibility to save the natural world from the destruction that we have caused? 🐚 Please make yourself aware, learn, understand, and make good decisions that benefit the planet rather than reduce it to rubble. Combining subtle texture with flat colour and layering, to emphasise the beautiful ethereal quality of nature in contrast to the luminescent green particles of polluton.
Within this image I have added details of microscopic viruses, bacteria and pollution to emphasise the dystopian elements of manmade pollution within the ocean. As micro plastics take on a very simple form, small and round, I have looked into other aesthetically interesting design elements that can be integrated in order to reflect the toxicity of pollutants.
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