Artist Statement

...My topic was kind of thrust upon me. After taking a vacation with my dad, my partner that I was assigned to be with, Martin, had changed classes, so I was alone to find my own project. Then one class period Margaret told me that Allie's partner also split on her, so I teamed up with Allie, who already had the idea in mind of doing a project on the Mayak region and its nuclear problems. At first I wasn't that excited to work on a project like this, but once I researched and read stories about this topic, I became immersed in it.

It is important because these people in the Mayak region have no voice for themselves, so they need someone to fight for them. Just the fact people now know about this is a big deal, being kept secret for so long. The more public knowledge, the more pressure for these people to stop what they are doing. Mainly the fact that we are spreading the knowledge of this event to people is a great enough call, nobody that we have told about this knew about it.

I feel like a echo, but I'm really amazed by the fact that I didn't know about this before Allie had told me about it, she found it on the company Greanpeaces' website. People really need to start thinking of others, as well as the consequences of there actions. View another persons life as if it were your own.