GAIA

Although the picture quality is not great here, I did my project on GAIA. I thought this would be a very interesting topic to draw on because there are so many facets to the Hypothesis. Lovelock first proposed his hypothesis as a scientific view of the Earth. He believed the Earth was a self-maintaining super-organism capable of homeostasis. His hypothesis was then named after the Greek Earth goddess, GAIA. In the middle of the Earth, you can see a picture of the goddess, definitely the most time consuming part of this drawing. On the left side, I tried to illustrate the Earth as a super-organism by including blood vessels running in the same pattern as you would expect to see rivers flow. This left side shows the way Earth is supposed to be, in its most alive and natural form. On the right side of GAIA is today's world. As you can see, the blood vessels of the planet have been replaced with paved roads. The green landscape seen on the left is covered up with multiple cities and factories. These factories are all pumping the clouds of polution into the atmosphere. Also on the right side is an oil tanker ship and a giant footprint, both of which represent our carbon footprint. The goddess GAIA separates the two halfs. It is understood that our ways of life, as seen on the right side, are tearing the plant apart ecologically, which is why cracks at the top and bottom of GAIA can be seen.