The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge, our annual student art competition. This year we asked students to create a piece of art that illustrates one or more actions that governments, non-profits, park managers, and indigenous communities can take to preserve coral reefs using a ridge to reef approach to conservation. We are thrilled with the entries that we received!
We received 510 qualifying pieces of artwork from 49 different countries, so picking the finalists was a difficult decision. Ultimately, finalists were chosen based on how well the artwork exemplified this year’s theme, the quality of the artwork, and the creativity and originality of their artwork.
We hope you will be as impressed with the submissions we received as we were. Without further ado, here are the finalists for Ages 11-14 of the 2022 Science Without Borders® Challenge:
"Ridge to Reef" by Zhaoge Wang, Age 13, China
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: The work shows the basic idea of Tai Chi that there is Yang in Yin and Yin in Yang through the Tai Chi diagram of Yin-Yang fish.From the ridge to the reef, from the land to the sea.The sea is Yin, and there is Yang in the Yin, just as there are corals and reefs in the sea;The mountain is Yang, and there is Yin in the Yang, just like the aquatic system naturally formed on the ridge. Yin yang fish describes the characteristics of yin and Yang in all things in nature,:They are high and low, opposite and inclusive of each other.This paper expounds that human beings should be in awe of nature. As art creators, we have no way to formulate a systematic and scientific protection plan.We can only advocate people to protect our ecological balance with the understanding of the operation law of all things in nature.
