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WHALES

WHALES

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  • One-of-a-kind Artwork
  • Year: 2024
  • dimension: artwork- 26cm/26cm/2.5cm
  • no frame (it could be ordered)
  • soft: fabric on painting canvas with stretched primed Italian fabric (70% cotton and 30% synthetics) and a wedged wooden frame made of softwood lumber
  • materials: 100% fine Italian silk shantung, Madeira embroidery treads, felt, machine sewing threads for the background, black silk organza 
  • Technique: digitally embroidered figures of whales, artistically cut out and further developed; hand stitched to the canvas, looking 3D
  • background- color build by hundreds of machine stitches of matching colors thread; fringe
  • second top layer of machine embroidered waves on black silk organza, hand stitched to the first layer
  • style- minimal, contemporary, 3D sculpture, romantic
  • colors- white, grey, black, different kinds of blue
  • ships in a box; shipping included

CONCEPT: The textile artwork “Whales” (part of the diptych “Whales & Dolphins”) is a mission to help unite more people, who are driven by passion and respect for the ocean, and a desire to make a positive impact by empowering and supporting vital conservation initiatives in regards to whales and dolphins.

Sadly, whales and dolphins face many threats- entanglement in fishing nets, collisions with ships, noise from busy shipping lanes, seismic surveys and sonar, loss of icy polar habitats and decline of food sources because of fishing industry, that is affecting the timing and ranges of their migration, distribution and ability to reproduce, rises in sea levels, freshening of seawater, acidification, chemical pollution and marine debris, rises in sea levels, changes in sea temperature, marine renewable energy technologies such as wind farms. For orcas, belugas and dolphins, known for their intelligence and social nature, the problem with captivity is huge. They are completely ill-suited for a life in confinement and the limited space, constrained social interactions, artificial environments, and behavioral restrictions lead to hunger, boredom, stress and premature mortality.

Please, sign the petitions bellow:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2yBcnOPTj9/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBwAEE_PYPJ/?img_index=1

The “dolphin and whales drive hunts” are another issue. Two of them, in Faroe Islands, Denmark and in the small village of Taiji, Japan, enormously cruel and happening for decades, are the reason for creating the diptych “Whales & Dolphins”.

During the six month-long hunting season in Taiji, dolphin hunters use drive hunt techniques to herd pods of dolphins to shore and as a result they are captured or dead. The captured ones may be selected for live trade to aquariums and marine parks for display, while others are slaughtered for their meat. The price for live captures is much higher than for those killed.
In Faroe Islands whale and dolphin “hunts” involve pushing pods of highly-intelligent, social creatures into a bay with jet skis and boats, where they are then dragged onto the beach and brutally slaughtered one by one – while the others watch and await their cruel death. The islanders largely support the killing and say that the completely unnecessary practice is an integral part of island life and resist what they see as outside interference.
The “Wales” textile artwork concentrates on the positive outcome by trying to describe the beauty of these loving creatures and to state by the means of textile art their importance for us humans and planet Earth. Whales, for instance help combat the impact of climate change by providing up to 50% of our oxygen. The way that they feed, poo, migrate, and dive between the surface and the ocean depths, circulates essential nutrients throughout the ocean and it supports the growth of phytoplankton, which locks in a massive amount of carbon from the atmosphere. Only by their scale, large whales lock in huge amounts of carbon and researchers estimate that this has been reduced by approximately nine million tones by commercial whaling during the last two centuries.

 

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