Owl

I was making the environmental paintings at the time I began to come to Roaming.  It was something like a political statement I was making, the way I felt about the state of the environment that we’re living in, and how we could challenge the government to boycott the multinational companies and think about what we are doing to the environment, and learn to grow our own food, learn to do things on a local scale, accept others’ differences, no matter what they look like.  We can put things right if we put our minds to it, and to create local communities in the land in self-efficient dwellings rather than concrete houses everywhere, living with respect, living side-by-side with nature. And to create a vegan lifestyle that will save the planet, because I am already a vegan.  It would make people think how to tread more lightly on the earth. 

I paint because I feel people need to wake up and realize that the environment they’re living in is disappearing because of modernization.  Because travel is cheap, people fly in planes that ruin the environment.  They don’t need to do it, and it’s causing damage to our environment.  It’s filling the air we breathe with poisonous gasses.  It’s hanging over us, creating a smog, and people are breathing it in.  It’s causing illnesses, and all sorts of mysterious illnesses.  A lot of people are suffering from it.  The same thing goes for nuclear power.  It’s getting to the fish.  It’s causing deformities in people.  Chopping down the rain forest is causing destruction in the environment because those trees are there for a reason, to stop pollution from getting out of control.  When you chop all the trees down, it makes the air unbearable.  It heats the environment, and it cause ozone damage.  The ozone layer is bigger in Australia.  People can see it.  There’s more damage there.  It’s taking the zinc out of the soil. 

We have to think of eternity, of how we can save the environment, and treat Mother Earth with the respect and love we would give our children.