Undeniably connected Anna BelleforteSoest, UT Prix du public - Vote des jeunes Dimension 40" x 40" Médium Acrylic and maps of Canada on canvas SSNAP People’s Choice Award Youth Vote $1,500 This piece examines the friction between how we want to live and what this really means. Dreaming of perfect islands, we often forget the enormous resources needed to sustain modern luxuries. These floating rocks present an impossibility in physical terms and what the earth can provide. They also visualize the well-known iceberg metaphor; the immensity of what we do not see below the surface – in people and in the world’s life-sustaining infrastructures. I hope to prompt thinking about things that go unseen because of their vast scale but do so through things we recognize and covet. Prix du public - Vote des jeunes Undeniably connected Anna BelleforteSoest, UT À propos de l'artiste À propos de l'artiste Anna BelleforteSoest, UT Anna Belleforte makes art about the interactions between architecture, nature, and humanity, drawing on observation and imagination. Her background in architectural history (MA) and historic preservation (MA) means she sees the built environment as manifestations of social history and buildings as expressions of desires, values, and experiences. From this perspective, she explores how what we build has meaning and consequences. As a mixed media artist, she uses paint and old maps or other papers to depict new places that feel familiar yet slightly foreign, creating new worlds with remnants of the old. She lives and works in the Netherlands. Suivez sur les sociaux