Artist: Lennox Warner Photo by Bill Horin
No Go Sea
Title: No Go Sea. Size: 84” x 72’ Medium: Wood Panel, Rhinestones; Color Marbles, Recycle Items, Acrylic Paint, and Epoxy.
Living along the New Jersey coast has made me become acutely aware of the damage that man is doing to the Environment. In the lagoons and Estuaries where sea animals come to breed, oil, plastic bottles and phosphorus accumulates for days bobbing on the water until the next tide washes them out to sea and into the food chain. The No Go Sea composition highlights my ongoing concern with man’s pollution of the environment. This composition allows for the element of chance, but the outcome is the same, a sense of collision with nature. In a seemingly random formation of lines and vortexes, it speaks of the linkage among various complex levels of organic life and Man’s pollution of the Ocean. Deeply imbedded in the fabric of the canvas are plastic bottles that will take thousands of years floating in the Ocean before finally breaking down. In the meantime mistakenly, aquatic creatures are ingesting the plastic particle for food and dying. Constructed with more than eight thousand 3mm light reflecting Rhinestones, this portrait conjures up the turmoil of the Ocean in its deadly rotation. Following, deeply below the dark surface, manmade pollution lurks killing everything in sight. Two thousand marbles gyrating in anger depicts bits of multi colored plastic on the surface of the Ocean that spiral and grows larger and larger. The profound connotations of this graphic cannot fully communicate how we envision our place in a broader context of how other creatures that have a right to live free in non polluted ocean waters. My inspiration and creativity is not to create a beautiful image but to prod mankind into leaving the earth better place for others.
Lennox Warner March, 2013
Title: No Go Sea. Size: 84” x 72’ Medium: Wood Panel, Rhinestones; Color Marbles, Recycle Items, Acrylic Paint, and Epoxy.
Living along the New Jersey coast has made me become acutely aware of the damage that man is doing to the Environment. In the lagoons and Estuaries where sea animals come to breed, oil, plastic bottles and phosphorus accumulates for days bobbing on the water until the next tide washes them out to sea and into the food chain. The No Go Sea composition highlights my ongoing concern with man’s pollution of the environment. This composition allows for the element of chance, but the outcome is the same, a sense of collision with nature. In a seemingly random formation of lines and vortexes, it speaks of the linkage among various complex levels of organic life and Man’s pollution of the Ocean. Deeply imbedded in the fabric of the canvas are plastic bottles that will take thousands of years floating in the Ocean before finally breaking down. In the meantime mistakenly, aquatic creatures are ingesting the plastic particle for food and dying. Constructed with more than eight thousand 3mm light reflecting Rhinestones, this portrait conjures up the turmoil of the Ocean in its deadly rotation. Following, deeply below the dark surface, manmade pollution lurks killing everything in sight. Two thousand marbles gyrating in anger depicts bits of multi colored plastic on the surface of the Ocean that spiral and grows larger and larger. The profound connotations of this graphic cannot fully communicate how we envision our place in a broader context of how other creatures that have a right to live free in non polluted ocean waters. My inspiration and creativity is not to create a beautiful image but to prod mankind into leaving the earth better place for others.
Lennox Warner March, 2013
