Within today’s society, we have become so conditioned and blind sighted by the truth. I explore the devastating effects our simple food choices has upon the environment and our health. My work will make people more curious and question the food industries and everything that they have led us to believe. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, it is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and it’s a primary driver to rain forest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean dean zones and virtually every other environmental ill. Yet it still goes on, almost entirely unchallenged. If I can shape one person’s way of thinking through my art that will be my job done.
I have chosen to focus my energies into etching as my main medium because it has the most wonderful varied techniques within it. I enjoy the technical side of this way of working the rigour of the process and attention to detail. At etchings core is a traditional drawing element, which allows the prints to have a detailed quality to them. I have most certainly surprised myself with how increasingly this appeals to me, as it has allowed my drawing to become more confident.
Yn y gymdeithas sydd ohoni heddiw, rydyn ni wedi’n cyflyru cymaint a fy nallu gan y gwirionedd. Rydw i’n ystyried effeithiau dinistriol ein dewis o fwyd syml ar yr amgylchedd ac ar ein hiechyd. Bydd fy ngwaith yn ennyn chwilfrydedd pobl fel eu bod yn cwestiynu’r diwydiannau bwyd a phopeth maen nhw wedi ein harwain i gredu. Amaethu anifeiliaid yw prif achos datgoedwigo, y defnydd o ddŵr a llygredd. Mae’n gyfrifol am fwy o nwyon tŷ gwydr na’r diwydiant cludiant, ac achos sylfaenol dinistrio fforestydd glaw, difodiant rhywogaethau, colli cynefin, erydu uwchbridd, parthau marw moroedd a bron pob aflwydd amgylcheddol arall. Ac eto mae’n dal i ddigwydd yn ddiwrthwynebiad. Os galla i newid ffordd o feddwl unigolyn drwy fy nghelf , yna bydd a i wedi gwneud fy gwaith.
Rydw i wedi dewis ffocysu fy egni ar ysgythru fel fy mhrif gyfrwng oherwydd ei fod yn cynnwys technegau amrywiol rhyfeddol. Rydw i’n mwynhau ochr dechnegol y dull hwn o weithio, manwl gywirdeb y broses a’r sylw a roddir i fanylder. Yn greiddiol i ysgythru mae’r elfen lluniadu traddodiadol sy’n golygu bod rhinweddau manwl i’r printiadau. Rydw i wedi synnu fy hun bod hyn yn apelio fwyfwy ata i gan ei fod wedi caniatáu i mi luniadu’n fwy hyderus.
