Lisa Ray Instagram – Repost from @natasha.jeyasingh using @RepostRegramApp – An #artwork a day keeps the #blues away – It’s Earth Day 🌏 Earth day was founded in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson in the hope of making the environment a political issue. Today we have a number of environmental laws in place but we have a long way to go. To remind us of the huge challenge we face, I share with you the art of Zaria Forman who documents climate change with pastel drawings. . Zaria Forman Pastel Drawing . . “Artist Zaria Forman travels thousands of miles to collect source material for drawings that portray the beauty and fragility of the world. Her goal? To help people experience the sublimity of these landscapes, so they’ll be inspired to protect and preserve them.” (Dan Kwartler in www.ideas.ted.com) . . The inspiration for Zaria Forman’s drawings began in early childhood when she traveled with her family throughout several of the world’s most remote landscapes, which were the subject of her mother’s fine art photography. Her works have been in publications such as Juxtapoz Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Huffington Post, and the Smithsonian Magazine. In August 2012, Forman led Chasing the Light, an expedition sailing up the coast of Greenland, retracing the 1869 journey of American painter William Bradford and documenting the rapidly changing arctic landscape. Continuing to address climate change in her work, Forman traveled multiple times to the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, and arguably the most vulnerable to rising sea levels. Forman was invited aboard the National Geographic Explorer, traveling to Antarctica as an artist-in-residence in November and December 2015. (Image credit Zaria Forman at.http://artodyssey1.blogspot.in Text credit www.Ted.com) . . #artworkaday #artpediem #artist #art #instaart #igart #artistofinstagram #artoftheday #artoninstagram #artpediemdotcom #carpearte #seizetheart #zariaforman #pastels #drawing #earthday