Women in Art 278 Magazine March 2014 | Page 8

co v e r p ag e cont e st [ w at e r ] w inn e r Angela T reat Lyon I intend my work to do with joy and celebration. It’s said that “We are all One.” If that’s true, there’s only One of us here. So it’s up to us as thinking, creative beings to not only steward our precious planet, but the creatures and every human bring upon it, from the deepest part of our hearts. Because we are One. There is not just one garbage patch. There are five, one in each northern hemisphere ocean. Expanding daily. There are believed to be 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of ocean. Scientists have identified 200 areas declared as “dead zones” where no life organisms can now grow.(1) Every day in the US alone, more than 85 Having spent most of my life on an island