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Decay

April 5, 2016 ASAA

Blake

Title of Art Piece: Decay
Category: Photography – 2016
Student/Artist’s Name: Blake Swarthout
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: While wandering through the woods near the Rocky mountains in Colorado I was surrounded by the wonders of nature, life, and death. My trusty Australian Shepard, Codie, barked in distress as he attempted to call for my attention, when I came to him he had the skull featured in the photo laying at his feet with a smile on his dog face. I felt it was my civic duty to share the story of this fallen beast as it was no act of chance I found it, it was destined to live on in art. I feel that the skull and the fallen tree both communicate a theme of death and decay that strongly contrasted the lively, green, and beautiful Rocky mountains.
Artwork Dimensions: 3000 × 2400 pixels
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Filed Under: Photography – 2016 Tagged With: West Valley - 2016

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