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Title: Recycled flowers
Description: I have used left over threads and wool to create fantasy flowers and hope there is a strong conservation message. Seeing all the threads on the floor and thinking of waste, I picked them up, sewed them down and created fantasy flowers embellishing them with beads.
My message is to Reduce, Re-use and Recycle as much waste as possible. Environmental education is my passion and working as a voluntary marine educator at Sea World, Durban allows me to educate school children and help them to understand the need to care for our environment and use our resources in a sustainable way. The earth and ocean upon which we depend for food and oxygen, are threatened by over-fishing, pollution, alien species, habitat destruction, global warming, islandisation and by-catch. For every prawn that we eat, up to ten animals die.
Education is vital. If the sea dies, and it can, we die. "Those of us alive on the planet today face the most awesome challenge ever faced by humankind, stemming the sixth extinction, which is being caused by global explosion of humans." - John Ledger of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.
We can make a difference.
Dimensions: 25cm X 25cm
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Exhibition: Major Minors I
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