Eco Nymph

My new painting “Eco Nymph” exploring environmental creative solutions for our future. Acrylic on Canvas 2020🧚‍♂️ Largely inspired by biomimicry, insects and nature, Hajime Sorayama, Maxfield Parish, Art nouveau, vertical farming, antique fairy books and folklore, the aesthetic movement, and Ernst Haeckel

The Concept:
These Eco Nymphs are robot fairies that I designed for the future that are programmed to keep our planet clean. They are made from Aluminum because it’s light weight and durable(like planes), photovoltaic skin (solar panels), and recycled sea glass (wings). They live on vertical farm buildings and are each assigned to one. Swarms of them would live on top of these buildings and charge themselves through solar energy as they rest. They each have assigned tasks, like picking crops from the buildings and providing them to people to distribute and sell. They maintain and care for the wildlife and plants. They pick and sort through trash to recycle. They embark on programmed missions and clean the air at the same time. They are packed with advanced available technology. Like purifying air through carbon filtration mimicking trees. Solar panels that operate the robots and charge them. Weaponry incase of danger or threat.

These buildings and Eco Nymphs would be built and produced as sustainably as possible for a longterm better world in the future. The buildings are lush and large packed with saturated wildlife and insects to promote natural ecosystems. The buildings would grow and operate through Aeroponics. This does not require any liquid (water) or solid medium (soil) to grow plants in. Instead, a liquid solution with nutrients is misted where the plants are suspended. By far, aeroponics are the most sustainable soil-less growing techniques. It uses up to 90% less water than hydroponic systems. The absence of growing medium allows aeroponic systems to adopt a vertical design, which further saves energy as gravity automatically drains away excess liquid. The only downside would be the economic strain it would create to build the facilities and robots.