Second-year Diploma in Digital Media (DDM) students Cherrie Chen, Lam Oi Keat and Seah Jian Ling evidently have the environment on their minds. The three Singapore Polytechnic (SP) students translated their concerns into art to win awards at the Digital Art Competition on the Environment. Their performance tops that of the two silvers won at last year’s competition.

Organised by the British Council Singapore, the Singapore Science Centre and the Scholastic Environment Fund (SEF) to raise public interest in and awareness of environmental issues through the use of visual communication, this year’s competition was built around the theme “Climate Cool in the Urban Jungle”.

We caught up with Cherrie and Oi Keat recently to find out more about their achievement.

Cherrie’s submission, entitled “Who destroyed it?” took the gold award in the tertiary division of the competition. Her inspiration for the work came one day when she happened to be looking out at the city of Singapore from the Esplanade rooftop garden. ( where she always hang out after church service with me and the rest, so in a sense, im her inspiration!)

“It made me wonder what it was like before all the skyscrapers sprouted all over and changed the skyline. That's when I had this inspiration to make a comparison of the past and the present,” Cherry ( hahah!!) explains.

She wants others to be aware of what urbanisation has done to the environment and has tried to represent this in her work.

“The once peaceful and harmonious village has been replaced by modern buildings and skyscrapers. The two dragon-like plumes of smoke signify that humans are self-destructive; the price we are paying for modernisation. The city causes pollution that contributes to global warming, which in turn leads to more serious problems.”

-taken from SP homepage-

obviously she crapped her way through the speech. haha!

but well done FRUIT!