Animals Are Dying, Can Art Help?
<p>With the death of the last male white rhinoceros, and the news of giraffes becoming endangered, the irreparable damage that we have caused to bio diversity on earth is becoming a very real concern. Future generations will only see pictures and videos of animals we have seen. Forests will be torn down completely. The future of this planet is no longer something that any of us can take lightly.</p>
<p>Man has no more right to live on this planet than any other animal. Some artists took on this concern and decided to share it with the world through public art to let this permeate into our collective consciousness. Lacoste did it through design. Here are a few projects about the quickly disappearing creatures with whom we inhabit this planet.</p>
<p>1.<a href="https://mymodernmet.com/sonny-animal-paintings-endangered-species/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><em>The Bone</em></strong></a><em> by </em><a href="http://sonnyonline.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><em>Sonny</em>.</strong></a><strong> </strong>Each portrait is a deep look into the cultural and emotional value of the animal. He highlights the body part that these animals are poached for in gold. The faces are stripped to reveal tribal patterns to signify the magnitude of an animal’s importance in the cultural fabric and lore of a place and people.<br />
He created hand painted skulls of these animals to really implore people to imagine the consequences of poaching these animals and destroying their habitats.</p>
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