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I revisited the concept of my older painting titled 'Selfish' that was made 10 years ago. I'll always miss you. Thank you for the 17 years of unconditional love. Now I'm old enough to be okay on my own, and it was thanks to you. If my mom had gone through with the suicide, I would have been okay because I had you. When emotional trauma gave me amnesia for one year, I couldn't remember the people in my life but I remember you. But somehow you always made it back to me. With each divorce and remarriage, we had to move and give you away when the new place didn't allow dogs. I had to shampoo you twice and it was all so much fun.

I held you in my lap even when you smelled like rotten fish. You really loved to roll in duck poop and dead fish. The best days were when we got to go to your favorite lake. We dug giant holes in the backyard, filled it with water, jumped in and covered ourselves in mud. And suddenly everything was going to be okay. When my dysfunctional family was crumbling down, when I was bullied in school, when the entire world seemed so bleak, you wagged your tail and smiled at me. You were always there for me, through sunshine and rain. I hope one day the smog will clear and the censorship will lighten, but unfortunately I don't see that happening very soon. So much has improved yet so much has worsened. It's been a bittersweet experience visiting my homeland again after so many years. I still like my old idea of showing the city covered in smog, so maybe I'll go back and paint that as well sometime. I ended up scrapping everything 5 times before using Zemotion 's beautiful photos as a reference point to finish this. Initially I wanted to add the city and other people in the background, but it didn't work with the composition. The better air quality was so noticeably better that I wish I could have just covered my mouth with those plants.Īfter coming back to the US, I had art block and repainted this idea many times. During the trip, we also visited the Giant Panda Breeding Center in Chengdu, and the area was covered in plants and bamboo.

Luckily we got masks a few days later and recovered. My SO who went with me also developed headaches and fever. I ended up developing a fever, coughing none stop, and my lungs burned so much.Īs a child I didn't even notice the pain because I was so used to it, but now I couldn't even survive a few days. This time I forgot to pack mine, so the first few days back I thought I could just tough it out. Growing up there I always had poor health and would cough up a lot of phlegm, and every time I went back I would bring a smog mask. This painting is inspired by my recent trip to China. There are many other small things that we can all do help the environment like turning off the lights when we're not in the room, or not using the AC or heater if we could just take off or put on a jacket instead.Ĭhange is not waiting for the scientists and government to come up with the solution, change starts with the little things we can do everyday. Cows are also a huge source of methane, which is another type of greenhouse gases that's responsible for global warming. Even eating less meat (especially cows and pigs), can greatly help because it takes more energy to raise a cow than some crops of the same nutritional value. Taking public transportation, carpooling, or riding a bike are a cost efficient and healthy way to save energy and money. Relying on oil also lets big oil companies like BP and ExxonMobile get away with oil spills time and time again. With that in mind, I'm not saying we should give up everything we own and live in the wild, but any amount of reduce, reuse, and recycle will lessen the amount of new products that needs manufacturing.

The manufacturing of anything takes up energy, which is usually created by burning fossil fuel like gas and coal. While fossil fuel burning cars are a huge source of green house gasses, many other things also add up to create the problem. Many of us think that helping to prevent global warming is just about driving a hybrid car, or getting solar panels, which most people can't afford, so why bother? Waiting for the countdown until all the ice caps and glacier have melted and water level has risen is not an option. 2000-present date was the warmest decade on record worldwide. This is not part of the natural climate change but a human induced and an abnormally accelerated increase in temperature. Polar bears that need the ice to hunt and survive are drowning or starving sometimes forced to search through dumpsters to survive.

Painter of the night book tv#

While many of us enjoy the luxury of watching TV on our couch with a cold can of soda or beer, the ice caps are melting at an alarming rate.