The Art of It All

What have you learned about yourself or the world as a result of living through the COVID-19 pandemic? Your challenge is to express your experience of living through this historic time through a work of art.

Happy new year Earth!

Summary

Happy new year earth! invites people to look at life after covid-19 with a fresh outlook. Covid-19 crisis showed us how our way of living impacts the earth drastically. This project is encouraging people to set some new goals “new year’s resolution” and start treating the earth and all the creatures who are sharing this planet with us better than before. The fireworks are representing Covid-19 virus (they may slightly look like the virus shape and colour when the work is finalised) and the the earth is representing today's human mindset about nature. There will be 19 fireworks above the earth and the 20th will be red and on the planet representing deadly impact of disasters in 2020.

How I Addressed This Challenge

During this crisis I learned that if we work with nature, nature can heal itself. Most people could see and breath cleaner air, learned about the origin of the virus, what we did or did not do that started or worsened this situation, how this virus spread amongst humans and how it could spread amongst other mammals. All these new learnings and the break from work or working from home all feel like we’re all ready for a fresh start just like a new year. We now have to set new goals to work better with earth and nature.

https://youtu.be/wFdDR5tKS4w

How I Developed This Project

I'm fascinated by conformal circles, earth images and promoting earth friendly approaches in our daily lives. I used an earth image that's taken by NASA and acrylic painting on a 122 cm by 92 cm canvas to demonstrate my passion for the above.


Project Demo

Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough time to finish the painting during the weekend and ran out of paint as the painting is too large. However, decided to share my concept and will definitely finish it soon. 

Data & Resources

Recording on the video is from Dr Jane Goodall MasterClass. Trailer available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRer-vSi0Y

NASA earth images:

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/images/index.html

Conformal circles: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a87f/00c1df440ae976f1b96ca456f7bf2d6a094e.pdf

Tags
#earth #humandecisions #thinkandactlocally #janegoodall #respectforourplanet
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.