#artforamazonia

🔥 A U C T I O N 🔥

100% of proceeds goes to Amazon fire recovery. Bid now at: https://buff.ly/32otD2L

Auction ends in ~24 hours! (Sept 2nd 2pm US Central Time... Sept 2nd 21:00 Central Europe CEST... Sept 3rd 5pm Australia) Open worldwide, but bids are in Australian Dollars. Every little contribution counts, together we can make a difference. Feel free to spread the word! 🖤

The auction is held by https://www.instagram.com/artforamazonia/ where you will find lots more crafts and art up for auction! All the artists are donating their pieces (and covers shipping costs) so that you can get an original piece of art and your money will go directly to Amazon Aid via Amazon Conservation Team They are focused on restoration, recovery and training (for fire prevention etc) for indigenous communities, who have been without a doubt the best guardians of the land.

---- The Amazon rainforest produces over 20% of the oxygen in the world, and also, is home to huge numbers and wide varieties of plants, animals and indigenous people and it has been on fire for the past month. Fires in Amazonia are usually rare but happen due to deforestation which have, in Brazil, rapidly increased for the last few years since the economy plunged into a recession in 2014 and the country became more reliant on production of beef and soy, which are drivers of deforestation. Sinze Brazils new president took over in Jan 2019, he declared that Brazil’s vast protected lands were an obstacle to economic growth and promised to open them up to commercial exploitation and the government scaled back efforts to fight illegal logging, ranching and mining.

Lets come together and do what we can, together we can make a difference and contribute to helping those directly affected by the fires, which extends to helping everyone, considering what the indigenous communities do for the Amazon rainforest that we are all dependent on, wherever we live - we are all connected 🌞 ----

This pitfired ceramic pendant is directly inspired by (one of) the rock carvings in Näsåker Sweden that I visited earlier this year. The petroglyphs in the area are dated to somewhere between early stone age and late bronze age. Dimensions: 3.5 x 4.5 cm (ca 1.4 x 1.8 inches).