Pia Zanelli
Self-Isolation
Wire and plaster
152 cm x 91 cm
Artist Statement:
I am a multi-disciplinary artist. My work, however, mainly centres around sculpture and installations. I prefer to work with found objects and waste products. My current pieces are created from discarded fish skins and cardboard.
In creating these pieces I am questioning the lack of determined effort on the part of Governments to stop the abuse of our planet, for example, deforestation of the Amazon and over fishing the oceans.
My work “Any Way You Look at It” focuses on the overfishing of our oceans. There are no sustainable fish. Our methods of fishing ensure the fish no longer have a fighting chance of escape. Even our fish farms are places of disease and bad management. By overcrowding the fish the creatures are eaten alive by fish lice and many fall foul of infections as they live in toxic water created by their own detritus.
The piece entitled “Blah, Blah, Blah” can be read either as politicians and their verbal assurances that efforts will be made to slow global warming whilst always moving the date when improvements will be in place to a time further in the future. There is a lack of honest intent and action. The piece can also convey the results of deforestation. The rate at which the Amazon is being cut down will eventually cause a domino effect. At that point the trees will rapidly start to die off and there will be no stopping
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