Private Secondary Vocational School Postupimská, Košice: Richard Šoltys, Diana Garafová, Sofia Szemenyáková, Michaela Petrová, Diana Mečiarová, Juraj Bubán under the guidance of Mgr. Viktória Sabadošová

In Step with Nature 

Welcome to the presentation of our work called “In Step with Nature.” Here I will describe how the process of creating this work took place.
About 8 people worked on it throughout January until mid-February. We made approximately 2 works, but we chose this one. Our first work was completely different, a different style from this one. For this work, we were inspired by one artist and his video “Forever Rain.” We really liked its black-and-white style, so we tried it, and something like this came out of it.
Each of us had some part of it to work on. Someone worked on the factory, someone made the trees, someone the boy, and someone the path and so on …
We know that at first glance it may seem sloppy to you, but we tried as hard as we could to make it work and, above all, so that the lesson we wanted to convey could be seen.
The picture shows a boy who is deciding which path to choose. Either toward nature, where there is cleanliness, or toward the factory, where everything is polluted. In the picture, the footprints lead to the factory, because honestly, without them we would not have, for example, the things that may be right now on your right or left. Even though we understand that it is bad, honestly, in this day and age it would not be the same without factories. But this boy is thinking about taking the path toward nature to show that we also have this kind of beauty around us and that we should not destroy it, but above all protect it. Because without it, without nature, without trees and so on, in a few years we would not be able to live the way we live now.
While making this work, we experienced far too many arguments, but also many funny things that we certainly will not forget easily. We also got to know each other very well during it, and in several people we found their true face. We also had various discussions about the problem of ecology and how polluted everything around us is. We learned a lot from it as well. We found out lots of new things from the internet. We are proud of our work, because it is our first one in this first year. Even if we do not win, we are glad that we could take part.