Chase Penrose - 2023

Artist's Statement

Given my lack of artistic ability, I decided to challenge myself with this project and write a poem titled Home about agriculture. I’ve never been great at poetry but I felt that it always was able to speak to me. I wanted to use this medium to try to get the reader to feel something they way I did going over this topic in class. It was a way for me to grow in my artistic ability but also to try to make the reader understand how I felt about this topic. I also felt that staying on this one topic would be more helpful as opposed to jumping around to different subjects.

When we discussed agriculture in class, I found it to be one of the most fascinating topics covered. I also felt that it is something most people don’t really know about. I really learned a lot about how poor our agriculture system is on the planet and unsustainable it was. I really wanted to convey that in the Poem I titled Home. In my poem, I tried to put an emphasis on regenerative agriculture and how we can make the system cleaner and more sustainable through it. I really just wanted to show that we could do a much better job in this area of our society. Though my poem I hope to inspire change towards a more sustainable system and future.

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