"Coralabra" By Jon Ching
Size : 12"x16"
No Frame
THE STORY BEHIND CORALABRA
Over the last 2 years, Earth's oceans have experienced a mass coral bleaching event with over 80% of the world’s coral reef area impacted by bleaching-level heat stress. We’ve ignited our oceans and set aflame coral reefs, crucial ecosystems on which 25% of all marine life depends. My piece “Coralabra” comments on human-made climate change, warming waters, and coral bleaching with alarmed sea creatures coming to investigate and help solve the problem, leading the efforts in hopes that humans will follow.
Jon Ching
About the Artist
Jon Ching grew up steeped in natural beauty on the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i, which formed the foundation of his deep fascination with the natural and wild world. A self-taught painter, Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. While dedicated to the minute idiosyncrasies of flora and fauna, Jon’s work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth. His work is often driven by his personal desire to find a balance between the human and natural worlds, exploring themes of symbiosis and searching for connections, physical and metaphorical, across nature’s kingdoms. Highlighting man-made threats to the natural world is a regular theme in his work to raise awareness of and evoke compassion for the kingdoms of life. Jon’s ultimate hope is to inspire love and admiration for the universally unique beauty and intrigue of our world.