Artist Statement
My sustained investigation explores the greed of the wealthy and powerful and the consequent corruption of nature. Art has been made about destruction of the environment, but I wanted to go in-depth about how wealth and greed cause this destruction. So that is what I did for my investigation, was take the monarchy, a symbol for power, oil for corruption of the environment and use these symbols in my investigation to create a narrative of greed. In addition to the symbols of oil and the monarchy, I repeated the motifs of gold and cards and the colors red and green across my portfolio.
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