color pencils, charcoal, and white gel pen;
18×12”
“This work is supposed to show the beauty of butterflies and the joy that they can bring to us. Butterflies are one of our pollinators besides bees that pollinates many plants but specially flowers. Butterflies are also a common sign that an environment is sustainable and many say that butterflies are an example hope, freedom and peace. While many resources say that the world wouldn’t be impacted if butterflies were to go extinct, I disagree. Butterflies and bees are 2 of our most common pollinators and if one dies then the job is left onto one making more stressful for the other. Without them, most of our plant and flowers wouldn’t be pollinated and eventually they will will and die, making it devoid of the colors and joy flowers and plants bring us in life.”
ARTIST BIO: Ju’Niaha Blackwell is a grade 11 student at Seton HS studying art under art teacher Marjorie Metz.