The readings Gyer, The Plastic Ocean by Julie Decker and"Joyas Voladora" by Brian Doyle made my heart hurt. They both start off painting beautiful pictures and then, throughout the story, opened my eyes to the sad reality of death and destruction. "Joyas Voladoras" is a beautiful story about all different kinds of hearts. The story describes how important they are whether they are big or small, human or animal. In the beginning of Guyer, The Plastic Ocean, Doyle spoke about how important art was in the nineteen sixties and seventies and how artist would create massive projects in nature that would draw people to them and raise awareness for whatever cause they wanted people to learn about.
Doyle paints, in the beginning of the story, a beautiful…show more content… He continues to talk about how there is so much plastic in the ocean that if you put your hand into the water while floating above you can pick the debris out with your fingers. What I thought was interesting in this reading was "Indra's Cloud", the story about a woman who uses art as a way to bring awareness to the fact that there is an insufficient amount of mineral drinking water in India. The story tells of how Anne Percoco made a floating cloud out of empty water bottles. She got the idea from seeing a Shivananda Yoga group going through water bottles so quickly they were just piling up in the hallways of a school. She was aware of the environmental devastation of the Yamuna (river) and decided to do something that would draw attention to it. "After sewing together more than a thousand bottles, mostly gathered from the foreign yogis, she had them carried in sections to the Yamuna River. There she assembled them into a cloud-like float, which she then sailed around the town talking to residents about the river." (pg
