BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
An appreciable number of Street Artists around the world continue to address climate change with their work, whether small stickers or large murals, often with a focus on the animals that cohabitate with humans. Functioning perhaps as the canary in a coalmine, this rising number or artists and creatives is beginning to sound like a chorus.
Mr. Fijodor. “Life Below Water”. IICerchio E Le Gocce Association. Lavazza, Turin. October 2018. (photo © Livio Ninni)
Today from Turin, Italy, we have this painted whale constructed entirely of garbage from Street Artist Mr. Fjodor. Our oceans are now showing more obvious signs of our reckless behavior, including more obvious examples like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Additionally, what is showing up in the water you drink?
From surface to seabed the plastics are now floating everywhere in our oceans, and microplastics are now appearing in your food. Even responsible coffee companies are examining their part in polluting the oceans and earth by producing plastic K-cups – reportedly enough K-cups each year that, if strung together, could encircle the earth at the Equator multiple times.
Mr. Fijodor. “Life Below Water”. IICerchio E Le Gocce Association. Lavazza, Turin. October 2018. (photo © Livio Ninni)
17 street artists are realizing public artworks that address the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development 2030 (#Envision2030), say organizers of this new initiative in Turin, and Mr. Fjodor chose number 14, which examines “Life Below Water” with a focus on sea and its inhabitants. He tells us that Goal No. 14 to him means first prevention of pollutants and then finding ways to significantly decrease every kind of marine pollution.
“I have interpreted the Life Below Water goal using a whale as the main character of my work, being the largest marine mammal but also one of the most vulnerable,” says the artist. “The whale represents the fragility of the marine ecosystem and the careless and shortsighted exploitation made by men”.
Mr. Fijodor. “Life Below Water”. IICerchio E Le Gocce Association. Lavazza, Turin. October 2018. (photo © Livio Ninni)
Mr. Fijodor. “Life Below Water”. IICerchio E Le Gocce Association. Lavazza, Turin. October 2018. (photo © Livio Ninni)
Mr. Fijodor. “Life Below Water”. IICerchio E Le Gocce Association. Lavazza, Turin. October 2018. (photo © Livio Ninni)
Mr. Fijodor. “Life Below Water”. IICerchio E Le Gocce Association. Lavazza, Turin. October 2018. (photo © Livio Ninni)
Mr. Fijodor. “Life Below Water”. IICerchio E Le Gocce Association. Lavazza, Turin. October 2018. (photo © Livio Ninni)
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