Out of the chaos ! 🎇 first image work in progress.
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| Messy chaos working on recycled works yf 24 |
Over a number of weeks I have been working on up-cycling a batch of old art into new mini abstracts. The idea is to get enough ready in time for the next display to be held at Carlton Marsh Reserve, which is part of Suffolk wildlife conservation. This will be held over the month of September 24. I hope to work along similar eco-based themes ....Having the sketchbook works on show, particularly focusing on inspirational people ...Such as Chico Mendes and Frans Krajcberg etc..
I'm hoping to add a "funtime" interactive piece for all ages public engagement.
As it will be held within the reserve people will have interests in nature and the role of conservation....
Along with this I will be working on which relevant quotations to the topic again with the intention of public participation.
The actual display mainly focuses on the impact of deforestation and it's effects on ecosystems, including the symbiotic biodiversity of flora, fauna and it will include indigenous communities responding to the preservation of the wild.
Although the work is based on a previous project that explored the impact of deforestation within the Amazon Rainforest, it is still relevant to the ongoing consequences today in many parts of the world. But there will be more about the project on a later blog .
Here are a few previously finished works and a number of mini abstracts in progress.
They are. Mixed Mediums- acrylic, watercolor, crayon and ink ....theme title- Cosmos macro- micro.
Introduction to Chico Mendes & Franz Kracjberg.
Polish born Frans Krajcberg lived in the Amazon after the horrors of second world war. Frans wanted to leave Europe and describes how "Nature gave him back his humanity." His compelling story and inspirational eco quotes I hope to explore in more detail in this revisited project for September - Carlton Marsh .
The last image below is 'part' of Chico Mendes and The Brazil Nut Tree work in- Acrylic 2013 -( seen here as a post card.)
Some thoughts......
Did you know, that although the actual brazil nut tree can be grown in other regions, it's only able to produce brazil nuts within the Amazon ecosystem ....this is due to a combination of orchids and bee species for its pollination. This highlights how specifically integrated to the Amazonian region these species are. It was not originally known how Brazil Nuts pollinate ....Understanding that the two species of flora and insect, are only found within the Amazon, this seems to be key.
When deforestation induced by fire occurs, the brazil nut tree is legally protected from deforestation ...however as the rest of biodiversity around it is lost, sadly within a matter of years the brazil nut tree will eventually die. Paraphrased ref 1
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| Part of Chico Mendes and The Brazil Nut Tree. |
Ref 1 Chico Mendes - in his own words with Tony Gross. Book - Fight For The Forest. 1989. pg 40. Uk Central Books,99 Wallis Road. London. E9 5LN.
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