Student Name: Alexa Denton School: Oswego East High School Grade: 9 Class: Pottery 1 UN Sustainable Development Goal: No Poverty Brief Artist statement: The concept of my artwork is to show how individuals are suffering because they are not able to provide for themselves in any sort of way. This concept is important to me because there are so many people in different places struggling to survive on their own. For example, in m concept map children are not able to afford any sort of education. Also, some people aren’t even alone which makes it so much harder to find shelter as well as any type of food to give to their loved ones.I want the audience to feel a sort of pain and sorrow for these people when they are viewing my artwork because these individuals deserve a better life yet they are only hanging on by a thread. The colors black white and gray symbolize how long this has been happening for. Poverty has lasted for so many years and it still remains the same today. I want the audience to really see just how long and how much it has impacted these people.