Tori is passionate about working with and tending to the earth. She grows fruit and vegetables that she cooks and cans. All of the other trees and plants in her yard are native and designed to protect the earth and support birds, mammals, and insects. Her neighbors have noticed and given her space in their yards to tend as well. She composts and recycles but most importantly she minimizes buying new and disposable products. Ever since she was in grade school she’s been aware of the impact humans have on the environment and actively minimizing her impact. In eighth grade, that was 1985, she wrote a paper on climate change. In today’s world, that would be a common topic for a middle school student to write about, but over thirty years ago, that was very rare. If everyone cared for our earth and its inhabitants like she does, we’d be in a very different situation than we are today.
- Subject Matter: figure, landscape