FRIGHTENED BUT FLIGHTLESS
The poster is about ANIMAL CRUELTY, penguins are being used for human entertainment. These birds are well-adapted and have evolved to survive in the harsh environment. I researched and found out about different events where these little birds were traumatized recently. One of the events was what the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team did to these innocent birds. They used real live penguins, seven of them, onto the ice for a show as pre-game entertainment a few fireworks were set off, and the Penguins flapped their wings to show they were frightened. Pittsburgh Zoo let their penguins be used. Why trust the zoo when they hold animals captive for years? These penguins need to be in the Arctic or the North Pole. Not just these penguins are imprisoned for diners' entertainment at an aquarium restaurant called Pingoo Restaurant in Jakarta’s Neo Soho Mall keeps an enclosure full of penguins so that diners can watch the animals while having a meal. This publicity stunt is disrespectful, out of touch, and tragic. Penguins deserve to live in the wild, not to be locked up in a prison cell at a restaurant so that people can take selfies. Pingoo, a seafood restaurant, is run by the Jakarta Aquarium, which is affiliated with Taman Safari, a park that heavily drugged a lion cub so that tourists could pose for photos with the animal. Penguins are fascinating animals who, in nature, spend 75 percent of their lives swimming freely in the ocean and can live for 15 to 20 years. It’s no surprise that they become easily stressed, frightened, or agitated when they’re forced into close contact with humans. Jakarta isn’t the only place where penguins are locked in a shopping mall for human entertainment. The Grandview Aquarium in Guangzhou, China, located in a shopping mall, displays 500 species including a polar bear, arctic wolves, and penguins inside barren enclosures that are too small for them to engage in natural behavior. The aquarium has already been called “one of the saddest zoos in the world” because the animals there suffer from neglect, poor care, lack of stimulation, and lack of natural light.
CREATED A BRUSH ON ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FOR BENDING THE BARBED WIRE WITH BETTER CURVES
The blue background represents the Arctic and the grey as death. The artwork in the middle shows the anatomy of the penguin, the X-ray represents death. Below the main subject, only the bone structure is visible as a reflection depicting the reality of the results of their lives. The title I’ve used is “FRIGHTENED BUT FLIGHTLESS” which means that penguins are scared of human beings, they are bound to stay and they cannot escape from this trauma because people support these kinds of places and enjoy going there, and these places make money out of their agony. the barbed wire around the penguin portrays that it is bound by human actions and even if it tries to escape, it'll end up getting hurt. As in real life penguins cannot fly, I’ve used the same word to show that they can’t fly because of human interference in their life.
