Creative Project

So this is my pretty much completed creative “paper” aka my painting…

Artist Statement:

The focus of my research paper was about global warming and what IUP is doing compared to other American colleges, specifically more local-based colleges such as: Penn State, Carnegie Mellon, Duquense University, Philadelphia University and Lehigh University.  Through my research, I found that IUP is making an effort but a minimal one.  So I decided to transfer my 23 page research paper into a creative piece of artwork: an oil painting.  On the left-hand side of the painting, I have a scene of a SUV driving towards Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  It is a nice and clear day as the driver is driving through the countryside approaching the arch of IUP.  The SUV is letting off emissions into the air and killing the clean environment as it is approaching the campus.  The road then wraps around and behind a lively tree that complements the nature scene; but the right side of the tree is dead.  These scene is the far future of what the world could become.  I focused on IUP and its main building on campus, Sutton Hall.  On this side of the painting I have an ocean scene in front of Sutton.  If we do not make a difference now then there is the possibility of the world’s major cities being flooded from rising ocean levels.  I decided to exaggerate this scene by applying these conditions to IUP’s grassy areas on campus.  I also made a vibrant sun and murky sky.  I wanted to make the atmosphere dense and seem to have been depleted by all of the emissions that have been released in prior years.  Overall I think that my painting represents the information that I learned from my research paper.

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