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Other animals do not belong in zoos and aquaria. It's sad that such a bleak existence is pretty much mocked when the prisoners succeed in escaping. This time no one was murdered for escaping. *From the Valley Advocate 🐵 🐒 🦍 🍀 🌲 🌳 🌱 🌿 #dontbuytickets #zoosareprisons #chimpanzee #mockery #livefree #notoursforentertainment #veganliving #animalethics #morality #confinement #captive #captivityiscruel https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BuHDdTXA3zD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vn1nkd314uc6

Excerpt from #vandanashiva 's book #makingpeacewiththeearth 🦌🦁🐯🦊🦏🐘🐍🦎🐢🦑🦐🦀🐬🐋☘️🍀🌲🌱🌷🌼🌸💮🌹🌍🌎🌏♻️ #landgrab #privatisation #lossofthecommons #poverty #oppression #noplanetb #love #compassion #earth #socialjustice #earthjustice #peace #capitalism #westernculture #privilage #poor #greed #timeisnow #cultivatewhatmatters #changeisgood https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BtHefUMgcxQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hgzf45nlbrvg

My variation of the #10yearchallenge, swipe through⏭️⏭️ I looked through sketchbooks, concepts and experiments that I have done in roughly the last 10 years. It's not in chronological order, they are grouped by medium mostly. It's cool to see a general style overall. 🦌 🐎 🦉 🌼 🌻 🏵️ 🎨 🖌️ ✏️ ✍️ #art #artwork #nature #create #wildlife #wildlifeart #instaart #animalartofig #animalartist #flora #fauna #personality #sketchbook #growth #vegan #veganartist #ink #watercolor #acrylic #graphite #grayscale #color #emotion #artofcompassionproject #artofcompassion https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/Bs4PQR9AhVI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wvo6num2z28w

Work in progress* "The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests." --Unknown 🦌 ✏️ ✍️ ✏️ ♥️ ♥️ 🌟 #wip #deer #whitetail #wildlife #nature #nurture #artwork #artsy #wildlifeart #veganart #coloredpencil #ink # lines #color #fauna #flora #motherhood #raisecompassion #raisevegan #herbaby #notyourmomnotyourmilk #instaart #illustration #create #createsomething https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BsoNVqAgOFF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rbermni3wraq

Cultivation and growth are crucial to the human spirit. Without them we tend to shrivel and decenter much in the same way that our life giving fruit and vegetable plants do. To create and nurture, I believe, is the very essence of a human being. Straying too far from these self fulfilling practices has fouled our souls and whitewashed our incredible brains into apathy and mindless consumption. ☘️ 🌿 🌱 🌾 🍅 Tomatoes from my plot this past summer. Winter has it's own brutal beauty and is a time for reflection and, hopefully, rest but I sure do look forward to growing another year's life giving miracles. 🌟 🌟 🌟 #tomato #foodforchange #foodforthought #foodsystem #socialjustice #cultivate #culture #vegetables #raisevegan #raisecompassion #urbangardening #permaculture #plantbased #vegan #vegangarden #urbanplot #communityissues #create #nurture #buildsoil #love https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BsluIKFAfD2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mm3git58dmyt

Work in progress* Detail shot of the coloring and shading process aka the ugly stage =]. Layer it up. 😁 Also, kids 🙄. Slowly but surely this will develop. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🏵️ 💮 🦌 🦌 #wip #art #whitetail #doe #fawn #animalart #wildife #illustration #create #draw #craft #uglystage #layers #color #flower #progress #slowlybutsurely #ink #coloredpencil #shading #lines #vegan #veganart #veganartist #motherhood #mothersagainstdairy #instaart #artofcompassion https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BsjgK40gCqi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cj99p5t4689b

Work in progress* For a deer friend of mine. Her favorite animal and flower. Her admiration for her son. Embracing in a magical love and a tenderness ever challenged by the world. ✍️ ✏️ ✍️ ✏️ 🦌 💮 💮 #art #artwork #deer #fawn #flower #lilly #wip #drawing #compassion #motherhood #mothersagainstdairy #vegan #veganart #veganartist https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BseMzS-AyMR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rnaplkwfwhix

Why send it off in bags?! •🌟mulch •🌟compost •🌟using available resources •🌟catching and storing energy •🌟 nutrients •🌟bird forage •🌟overwinter material for beneficial insects 🍂 🍃 🍁 🍂 #leaves #fall #winter #garden #growsomething #sustainability #thriveability #cultivate #culture #permaculture #earth #planet #waste #wastenotwantnot #urbangardening #vegan #vegangarden #raisevegan #teach #environment#buildsoil #create#naturedeficitdisorder #rewild #recycle https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BsbM5XcAx3r/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mbrucjsff2um

Arty baby. I wish I had a space to have more freedom with art mess for the kids. How cool it would be to have a studio that we can grow creativity and learn together. Maybe one day. 🖌️ 🎨 ✍️ 🤗 🐣 🐣 🐥 👶 🌱 #children #art #create #color #artbaby #artist_community #vegan #culture #expression #engage #inspire #love #createsomething #createandcultivate https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BsJ0oTDAs84/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j8jc8c2274u6

An end of the year watercolor sketch. I, as well as many others, have much to say about the trials and tribulations of this past year. I wrote this to myself in a notebook during a down point and thought I would share it with all of you. Keep growing my friends. • • "Grow like a Wildflower. Through cracks. Through crevasses. Through chaos. Through storms. Even if no one else wants you to. In uncultivated fields. By the mercy of chance and randomness." • • Have a wonderful new year. 🖌️ 🏵️ 🌾 ☘️ 🌿 ❤️ #sketchbook #watercolor #paint #wildflower #newyearseve #grow #words #trials #tribulations #art #poems #artofinstagram #vegan #veganartist #love #compassion #plants #flora #createandcultivate https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BsE9x0_geMz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dd4tb329csp

Maybe in 2019 we just might, hopefully, finally... Give a damn. 🚮 Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle. Be a good steward. 🌳 🌿 ☘️ 🌱 🏵️ 🌹 #litter #trash #cleanup #park #environment #city #urban #worldissues #communityissues #giveadamn #recycle #takeresponsibility #springfieldma #anthropocene https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BsEQK6fgvzC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7ymvz5f05e29

Jayda and her drool bubbles. Commission 9"x12" Watercolor, ink, graphite, colored pencil on watercolor paper. 🐕 🐾 🤤 🎨 🖌️ ✍️ 🖊️ #animalart #animalportrait #dog #drool #watercolor #ink #coloredpencil #color #personality #art #vegan #veganartist #commisson #artcommission #canine #adoptdontshop #friends #instaart #instadog #artofcompassion https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BsBfEqpAmr8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oxyj8zdfgtkj

Readings for the honors colloquium "Ecosocialism or Ecocide". Quite excited to work with this class in the spring semester. I saw a quote recently that said "Read to understand, write to be understood." How simple yet powerful. • The Ecological Revolution - John Bellamy Foster • Making Peace with the Earth - Vandana Shiva • A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid • Karl Marx's Ecosocialism - Kohei Saito 📗📘📙📚📖📕📑📒🦁🐯🐺🦍🐎🦌🐘🦏🐭🦎🐍🐢🦅🐣🐸🦐🦀🐬🐋🐳🐙🍀☘️☘️🌿🌾🌵🌱🌲🌳🌹🏵️💮 #read #books #education #learn #ecosocialism #environment #capitalism #marxism #revolution #animals #vegan #permaculture #children #futuregenerations #earth #planet #respect #consumerism #holyokecommunitycollege https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/Br37sndDarm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16lscfu6dsmyw

I have decided to start a Society6 store to launch my work out into the world for purchase. These two babies can already be found on various household goods and as prints. Please feel free to share and give feedback on gifts you like as well as the art to be printed on them. •🌟💸10% of earnings exceeding $100 will be donated to a sanctuary in need each month. 🦌 🐏 🌼 🌼 🌼 Link to store is in bio. Society6.com/startingattheroots #society6artist #vegan #veganart #supportart #creatthelifeyouwant #createandcultivate #veganartist #prints #iphonecases #poster #posterdesign https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BrmBz2xjGDY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3z6zt9jwbao5

I broke up a bulb or galric. She asked what I was doing. Hey my darling. Dig a hole, put one in, and bury it. 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 #seeds #sustainability #cultivate #change #garlic #wintersow #urbangardening #nourish #plantbased #vegan #vegangarden #raisevegan #raisecompassion #environment #withlovr https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BrD6EbND-HI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jkxo1kpeyyw0

Paint rubbings by Lyla. Introduced crayons and paper a few weeks ago. We just want to walk around with them, eventually putting it in our mouth. 😁 I can't wait to see her creativity develop. ✍️ 🖌️ 🎨 🖍️ #art #infantart #babypainting #roomdecor #createandcultivate #raisevegan #raisecompassion #fuelcreatives #creativefuel #artist_community #acrylic #children #kids #createsomething #makeart https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BqSdCqPHCMl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ju03n2zcn7kq

The holidays are approaching. Or is it a Holocaust approaching? Or is it an eternal treblinka? It depends on who's side of the story you are listening to, or, ignoring. 🦃 🔪 💔 💔 💔 1st photo is from the Big Y I shop at. I couldn't help but want to cry. Second and third are photos by Jo-Anne McArthur / Djurrattsalliansen Images available from the we animals archive. @joanne.mcarthur @weanimals @djurrattsalliansen #turkey #turkeyfarming #thanksgiving #holiday #murder #masskill #grocerystore #deathisle #thanksforwhat #vegan #whyveganscare #whyimvegan #compassion #growcompassion #boycottcruelty #cruel #meetyourmeat https://www.instagram.com/starting.at.the.roots/p/BqIazdYD_ae/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wlf5d19efxq7