“Save our Sponge Bob” by Matteo Ratsimanohatra & Cyann Attali
6 February 2025
As part of the thematic exhibition "Water, In All Its States" organised by our art teachers from both departments, Isabelle Bezançon, Julien Jouaud, and Bruce Woolley, our middle and high school students have taken on the challenge of reflecting on our relationship as human beings with this vital resource that is WATER!
Their works, as analytical as they are aesthetic, as committed as they are technical, will be exhibited from 17 February to 18 March 2025, on the Blue Pool Road campus on the 5th floor.
For this occasion, we met with Matteo and Cyann who created a poster entitled "Save our Sponge Bob" so that they could explain it to us:
We created this poster for our “option art plastiques” class to denounce water pollution. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water, we hope to raise awareness on marine pollution.
We chose the theme of plastic water pollution. We want people to realise the urgency of taking action against marine pollution. Marine animals (represented by the famous Sponge Bob in our poster) are becoming endangered and we are still trashing our oceans. We hope to spread the message that humans are the cause of plastic water pollution and are driving the mass extinction of marine species.
We were researching topics on the SDG14 but couldn’t pick one. However, upon looking around the classroom, we saw numerous students with plastic bottles (drinks such as coca-cola…). This led to us researching the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and we were shocked at the images we saw. The garbage vortex is three times the size of France. This motivated us to choose the topic of plastic water pollution.
We hope students realise how serious the topic of water pollution is. Change starts with us, whether it is a small or a big action, we need to do everything we can to reduce plastic to assure our future. Here are some examples of what students can do:
- Use reusable water bottles
- Recycle all your plastic
- Pick up litter and throw it in a garbage can instead of on the ground
It is important to take action now and care for the environment while we still can. Otherwise, our Earth will die and we will not have any resources left. We have already entered the sixth mass extinction, if we do not change our ways now, it will cause irreversible damage to our future.
Staff, teachers and students
we strongly invite you to go see this thought-provoking exhibition !
