McMonster The Wrong Way Art Prints Release

 

 

 
PangeaSeed Foundation is pleased to announce the latest fine art print release for their educational print program, Printed Oceans. Featuring original artwork by supporting ARTivist McMonster (USA). "The Wrong Way" is a limited art print edition highlighting habitat destruction, such as mangroves, and the importance of wildlife conservation. Currently, mainly due to human impact, we are losing species 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. At this rate, at least 10,000 species go extinct every year.

 

Artist: McMonster (USA)

Title: "The Wrong Way"
Print dimensions: 16x20 inches with a half-inch border
Paper: Printed on museum-grade textured archival paper
Edition size: Standard black & white edition of 50 and Variant color edition of 25 all signed and numbered by the artist 

Pricing: $100 and $150 USD

Release date: Thursday, September 2 at 12 pm PST via shop.pangeaseed.org

Artist statement: 

"Mangroves are home to some of the most diverse ecosystems in existence. Every inch of them teeming with diversified life, from fish to birds, reptiles to big cats. Mangroves are truly magical. They are enchanting and an integral part of mitigating climate change. Unfortunately, every year more and more are disappearing due to coastal development.

In this painting, I chose to use the flying Egrets to represent moving upwards on onwards from our current climate situation, and their glow represents the importance of doing so. Having them move from left to right, mirroring the smoke and smog of the city is implying that this is the correct way to go. I have the mangrove tiger moving from right to left to represent their population moving in the wrong direction. I chose to make the smoke from the city imitate the veiny tangles of branches and vines of the Mangrove forests. The colored editions of this piece are meant to show the magic that the Mangroves possess, while the black and white versions are meant to represent the somber and heavy mood of what is actually taking place, which is the steady decline of these magical water forests due to coastal development." - McMonster