Forests are vital for life, home to millions of species, they protect soil from erosion, produce oxygen, store carbon dioxide, and help control climate. Forests are also vital for us to live as they provide us with food, shelter and medicines as well as many other useful things. They also purify the air we breathe and water that we need to survive. Deforestation by humans is causing all of these necessary functions to be lessened, and hence damaging the atmosphere even further.
Forests play a huge role in the carbon cycle on our planet. When forests are cut down, not only does carbon absorption cease, but also the carbon stored in the trees is released into the atmosphere as CO2 if the wood is burned or even if it is left to rot after the deforestation process.
Deforestation is an important factor in global climate change. Climate change is because of a build up of carbon dioxide in out atmosphere and if we carry on cutting down the main tool we have to diminish this CO2 build up, we can expect the climate of our planet to change dramatically over the next decades.
This photo was made by Georges-Pierre Seurat. This would capture media's attention, since a famous art was retransformed by removing trees and shed to highlight the deforestation adverse effects on humans including less quality air available etc. I would like to incorporate its negative affect on people in my photo.
Georges-Pierre Seurat, (2016). Fight Deforestation. [image] Available at: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj6xund-KzLAhWrAJoKHZw8DkYQFggoMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.georgesseurat.org%2F&usg=AFQjCNEDQ7Ch-vAKJvJrN3qLCdLEN4c85Q&sig2=wgrhNQSoYO-WxvMz4u8Bxg [Accessed 6 Mar. 2016].
This digital art was made by Worldwide fund for nature. It encapsulates how creatures , including humans, lung organs would be affected by less trees. I like the element of having 2 ideas associated in 1, where healthy lungs are associated by green trees. I would like to associate the idea of hurt lungs with pollution in my photo.
Wordwide Fund for Nature (WWF), (2016). Deforestation. [image] Available at: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjRtqf2_KzLAhWEApoKHSbiD6YQFggiMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fadsoftheworld.com%2Fmedia%2Fprint%2Fwwf_lungs&usg=AFQjCNGiPJEHnMPTKzFTaP1UWE59-5jj7g&sig2=0YdNRbKg3CwFb2YAZRW9NA [Accessed 6 Mar. 2016].
about the piece and how it relates to my work
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