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:
"The Redemption of Coral Reefs" by Yuetong Yan, Age 13, China
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: Corals are animals created by millions of small living things, they are beautiful, however, pollution in our world, mostly carbon dioxide is destroying millions of them. In the drawing, there are many normal things displayed, but, normal items in our daily life actually produce vast amount of carbon dioxide which is one of the most harmful things to corals. The bottom part is the ocean, we can see the coral is badly changing. Exaggerated color on the animals and items obviously shows the threat it creates, which is the manufacturing of carbon dioxide. The color filled in the canvas represents the carbon dioxide, and the sea grass tells humans what is the situation of saving the coral. It is an important part of the art work. In addition, the escaping marine animals from the ocean also shows the impact of the lack of coral reef.
