Junior / Senior Projects
Chinquapin Preparatory School

Recently Climate Change has become more realistic since more threatening storms have occurred. As a result, I decided to do my research paper on how environmental waste poses a threat to humanity. The heavy loads of pollution currently being dumped around the world are creating a toxic environment that eventually will not be sustainable for humans to live in. One of the simplest ways that people contribute to global warming is through littering. Thus I related my project to the effects of littering on global warming. 

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Many people today aren't aware of the huge contribution that littering is to climate change. Thus, for my project I wanted to raise awareness for the impacts of littering. I decided to make an art piece composed of trash that I would pick up in Buffalo Bayou Park, which is a heavily littered park in  Houston. My piece is  representative of Mother Earth as she hold the world, which is burning. I spent most my weekends during junior year going to the park and collecting trash. After I collected a sufficient amount of trash I began brainstorming ideas of what I wanted my art piece to look like and after much thought I chose to make a three-dimensional art piece of Mother Earth. I have hung it in the girl's dorm because it is one of the most prominent places in Chinquapin and this way it sure will be seen.

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My name is Jessica Gonzalez and I am a senior at Chinquapin Preparatory. When Hurricane Harvey hit and it was named one of the worst floods to occur in over 100 years, I realized climate change was a threat and I wanted to help reduce the impacts. At the same time, I wanted my project to be something artistic that I would be passionate about. That's why  I chose to make a trash sculpture because it would consist of me raising awareness for global warming, being artistic, and also reducing the amount of trash in buffalo bayou because thatś where I would be picking up trash.