5th Annual – Artwork & Poetry Contest – 2023
Harmony in Peril:
Exploring Climate Change, the Biodiversity Crisis, and the Fate of the Snow Leopard
WINNERS
Grand Prize Artwork
Chasing Snow
Artist – Jaqui-Lynne Walsh
Medium: Oils
As the Snow Leopard’s traditional habitats are impacted by climate change, they have to move ever higher and further to recapture the traditional lands.
In this oil painting, I wanted to put the focus on the following elements: the precious snow (home to sources of sustenance), movement (symbolizing the search for snow), the mountain peaks in the background showing no snow (climate change). The background on the left shows the sky is overcast with the promise of snow but on the right the clouds have dissipated showing a clear sky, the sun creating shadows shown with the sticks in the foreground indicating that this newly found snow which will also soon melt – also showing the effects of climate change.
Reference Photo: Emmanuel Keller
First Place – Traditional Artwork
Adult – 18 & Over
CEO
Artist – Gabriele Buratti-Buga
Medium: Oils
Wild animals adapt to the new climatic conditions and move in the spaces that centuries before belonged to them, here we see a city where the leopard moves as if on the mountains. Where are the humans?
Explanation of the numbers: Numbers are codes, they are the symbol of man’s estrangement from mother nature. But Nature wins and the leopard inhabits new spaces where the artificial world created by Homo sapiens has lost itself in the logic of consumerism guided by Power which acts through the codification of Nature.