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... is coming upon you. Fly, you fools. .-.
~~~
(okay, Gandalf, get out, this is serious)
Yes, this picture has a background story, but I first realized that myself after I had finished the drawing (which took me some time, damn all those little houses
).
So the background is quite up-to-date when you look what's going on in the world:
Nature scientists have found out (actually we know for some years already) that the lights of big cities confuse migrating birds on their flight routes. The birds either land or fly in a wrong direction, which causes them to loose energy and this often results in death. By the way, the same shit happens to sea turtles and alot of other animals.
We have to ask ourselves: Is it really necessary to keep our cities high-lighted all the time?
I guess that is what I had in my subconscious when I started drawing this. mh...
That's one side of the story.
The other would be that several details I drew here represent ... something:
- The houses and high rising buildings obviously represent the fact that we are becoming more and more humans, the growing of cities, and the replacing of natural environments
- the black water -> oil catastrophes (keyword: Gulf of Mexico)
- the fabrics, dark smoking: industrial polution
- power poles: many birds die on the lines every year
- for some reason I drew a tank in the middle of the city o.O
- cars: well, guess!!!
...
The birds (wild goose they are btw) represent not just migrating birds, but furthermore stand for all animals that have to retreat from humanitie's onmarching.
...
Anyway, let me know what you think, please.
~~~
Material: Aquarell pencils, auqarell lead pencils, water, aquarells
(yes I used a photo of New York City as inspiration for the houses. ... yes there's The Statue too XD)
~~~
© me
~~~
(okay, Gandalf, get out, this is serious)
Yes, this picture has a background story, but I first realized that myself after I had finished the drawing (which took me some time, damn all those little houses
).So the background is quite up-to-date when you look what's going on in the world:
Nature scientists have found out (actually we know for some years already) that the lights of big cities confuse migrating birds on their flight routes. The birds either land or fly in a wrong direction, which causes them to loose energy and this often results in death. By the way, the same shit happens to sea turtles and alot of other animals.
We have to ask ourselves: Is it really necessary to keep our cities high-lighted all the time?
I guess that is what I had in my subconscious when I started drawing this. mh...
That's one side of the story.
The other would be that several details I drew here represent ... something:
- The houses and high rising buildings obviously represent the fact that we are becoming more and more humans, the growing of cities, and the replacing of natural environments
- the black water -> oil catastrophes (keyword: Gulf of Mexico)
- the fabrics, dark smoking: industrial polution
- power poles: many birds die on the lines every year
- for some reason I drew a tank in the middle of the city o.O
- cars: well, guess!!!
...
The birds (wild goose they are btw) represent not just migrating birds, but furthermore stand for all animals that have to retreat from humanitie's onmarching.
...
Anyway, let me know what you think, please.
~~~
Material: Aquarell pencils, auqarell lead pencils, water, aquarells
(yes I used a photo of New York City as inspiration for the houses. ... yes there's The Statue too XD)
~~~
© me
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Wow, what a powerful message and impressing execution! And you're so right; there are so many useless things we do resp. things we could do better that hurt other species instead (I'm thinking on the invasive species, the deforestation, ocean pollution, and the whole energy and climate change problems...)... However, your picture symbolises a rather underrated and unknown aspect, I think, and not only this makes it very worthful! Thank you very much for broadening my horizon and for raising attention on that important topic! It's a very touching piece. 