BFA Painting, SUNY New Paltz, Spring 2020

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Artist Thesis Statement: Environmental Issues

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My landscape imagery reflects both subtly and blatantly the duality of nature’s awesome majesty and tragic corrosive effects of human selfishness. Profoundly affected by horrific scenes of billions of helpless animals traumatized and destroyed by human carelessness in the California and Australia fires, some of my paintings focus on the crisis of environmental devastation occurring to our universal home. Others reflect the beauty of the world we live in when we stop and catch a moment’s glimpse.

 

Now with the isolating demands of the latest threat to humanity, Coronavirus, we are halted in our usual hurried pace. We must not continue to turn our habitual blind eye; but look with new energized perspective. 

 

Our universe is changing at an exponentially increasing pace. If we do not keep up socially, environmentally and universally, or better yet, get ahead of climate changes we have caused and continue to cause, we/our humanity will fail, along with all the creatures that depend on our actions, and the universe will continue in damaged form without us.

 

Claudia Rosti