‘Deforestation’

Despite shocking facts like these, I believe that people simply aren’t willing to take responsibility for the planet’s future. We need to stop thinking about the damage humans cause as external, and start recognizing that it affects each of us individually. For this reason, I chose to portray trees as lungs, because they are a major source of the oxygen we breathe daily. I chose to make the lungs the dark part to show that they are damaged, similar to how lungs of people who smoke a lot are. By portraying inanimate objects like trees as vital aspects of the human body, I was hoping to make the issue of deforestation more personal. For me, this print demonstrates the fact that, when humans cut down the rainforests, we are inhibiting the earth’s future, in addition to our own.