Angelina Sharma

February, 28th, 2023

Week 4

Life Below water: Research (Jelly fish)

For the Life below water project I was planning  on creating a 3D sculpture of the animal of my choosing using provided garbage that we will be given to us from our local river, alongside garbage from home. I want to focus on using more plastic as this is what dangers our waters the most. I do believe I can create something beautiful and meaningful  out of the material I am given.

The endangered water species I have chosen is a jellyfish.  Jellyfish are such beautiful and exotic looking sea creatures. Jellyfish contribute many great qualities for our environment such as cleaning or waters and maintain the balance of the oceans ecosystem. Jellyfish alongside most sea creatures are facing many life threatening reoccurrences due too water pollution. As a result of fishing, some jellyfish’s natural predators – such as tuna and swordfish – as well as those they compete with for food – such as anchovies – have been depleted. With more food and fewer predators, some jellyfish populations can grow unchecked.

Solutions in helping these beautiful sea creatures is lessoning how much we fish as we are also taking these creatures foo for survival. we can decrease the amount of garbage is being littered an thrown into the sea causing pollution. things like sing biodegradable garbage bags, and ultimately keeping away from plastic can help sea life immensely.

 

My Ideas/goal:

   

 

This is the vision I am striving for, for this project I will need lots of plastic water bottles, possibly a hot glue gun, and a blow-dryer to melt some of the plastic.