graphite and watercolor;
16×20”
“Do you enjoy nature? Animals? If so, you would want nature to be intact and thriving and animals to have a home. Well sadly not everyone seems to care about either at all. Companies bring construction vehicles in forests and chop down a bunch if not all the trees in that area. Not only are they destroying nature, they are also getting rid of animals’ homes. 
For my piece, I chose to show the before and after of a forest that was destroyed. I used graphite on the after side to show how dead and desolate it had become from it being destroyed while on the before  side I used watercolor to give it vivid colors and convey how alive and thriving it was. People have had mixed views about it but either way it’s not right. Not only is nature and animals being affected, the whole world is from the pollution those vehicles are emitting. Even us humans are losing homes because of it. The indigenous people who live in parts of the forests or neighboring areas lose their homes. I get we need resources but there has to be a more humane way that causes less harm.”
ARTIST BIO: Rebecca GREEN is a grade 12 student at Butler Tech School of Art studying art under art teacher Mary Catherine Ruby.