ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2021 Submission

We called it the ""MARSH"" Ive heard and read it called swampland, wet lands, and many more.

Gaia gave us these to protect and provide. They are the source of life for many species and our lives, protecting the surrounding lands from flooding , offering a powerful buffer to pollution runoff, serving as a natural filter to nutrient polluted water. This shared existance is teaming with life, plant and animal under water and above.

The MARSH was my mother. We spent many hours under the old willow tree imagining and playing.

To this day the first sound of the Red Wing Black birds warbling loudly from the loop of a bursting cattail fills my soul with the joy of spring days coming out the dark winter months. The croaking frogs a calm satisfaction at the end of a day.

It breaks my heart to see these fragile but strong places drained and turned into subdivisions or big agro farm fields.

I created this raw design as a memory of the lush beauty I knew and hope to inspire preservation.

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