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I was inspired to paint this when researching the conditions that whales and dolphins have to go through in Seaworld. I thought to myself. Would it be the same if we could see their emotions? It led to this idea.Related content
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Beautiful, and very very sad. I wish we could see their emotions so plainly, because I think it would be very different.
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The grass is always greener on the other side...until you get there , realizing that it's only different but not better at all.Β
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Come my brothers and sisters! Let us take down these evil men for their sick sense of entertainment! Rise my soldiers! RISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Β Β
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Lovely work, and a powerful message! I love the empty space you left in the picture, it reallly contributed to the feeling of isolation.
Oh, and you draw dinosaurs, too! That's a watch for you, my friend!
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Thank you very much
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Would you mind if I did a photo like this? With due credit to your painting of course! This is fabulous and powerful and I would love to help spread the message and your work.Β
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Yer as long as you give credit. 
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Such an impressive artpiece - thank you for sharing it!
It also makes me kinda happy that there are no "seaworld parks" in my country- only a raising station at the ocean.
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Yer, we dont have any in the Uk either thank god
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Beautiful work ! And there's an excellent reflexion behind it. If you wanted to pass a message, congratulations. You hit bullseye.
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Thank you, and yes I did
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Important thing to notice is that whales and dolphins *are not* humans or "sea people", any more than we are land dolphins. Drawing a thing like this creates enormous anthropomorphism, something that's not helpful to finding out what's actually going on.
Pretty much all the hype around SeaWorld is completely false, myths and propaganda. They are on top of zoological facilities and take excellent care of all their animals. Don't listen to people who profess to *know* exactly what's going on inside the animals' heads, because they DON'T.
They're just trying to forward an agenda.
1) SeaWorld does not capture animals
2) SeaWorld has nothing to do with Taiji or drive fisheries
3) SeaWorld is not trying to "cover up" anything
4) SeaWorld is not abusing or mistreating their animals in any shape, way or form
5) "They swim 100 miles a day" is a complete myth
6) There is nothing "special" about whales or dolphins to any. other. animal.
Why is it wrong to have a whale in 7 billion gallon habitat, but right to have a pet macaw in a cage as wide as it's long? To have a dog confined to a crate in a small apartment, and only let it leave the home in a leash? Why is it okay to have horses in stalls they can just walk a few turns in, but not have a pod - a family of dolphins - in a huge, naturalistic habitat?
Don't let animal rights activists do their thinking for you. They want to ban ALL animals from captivity, but start with whales, dolphins and elephants because they're the "easy pickings", to get the uneducated and unsuspecting public to rally against.
There is no difference in keeping cetaceans from keeping any other animal in captivity. There are good people and bad people, but the animals at the good facilities are thriving.
They're not suffering, it's not "slavery" (because they can't comprehend ownership), it's not "prison" (because they can't comprehend containment) any more than for any other animal.
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I agree.If we were to release all captive whales and dolphins in all SeaWorld locations (as well as aquariums),not only would they starve to death (because they still rely on humans) but people,especially children and dolphin fans like me,would be seriously deprived of the opportunity to interact with dolphins and learn about them.These anti-captivity people have to understand that some animals that are kept in zoos and aquariums are on the brink of extinction,like elephants.In our world today,pollution,poachers,habitat loss,and introduced species are threatening many animal species globally,and if we don't protect them in some way,they WILL become extinct.And connecting captive dolphins to slavery in SeaWorld would be like connecting Muslims to terrorism (and I don't think all Muslims are terrorists).Plus there are rehabilitation centers for injured,sick,and orphaned animals like the ones in SeaWorld.Take Hope the dolphin for example.She was found by a local fisherman in the shallow waters of Indian River Lagoon on Florida's East Coast after her mother had beached herself and died.It was determined she could not be reintroduced to the wild because she had not learned the necessary survival skills from her mother.As of today,she resides in the same tank as Winter (the dolphin with the artificial tail) and both dolphins are stars of the movies Dolphin Tale and Dolphin Tale 2 (If you haven't watched these movies,you should because both are based on true stories).While bottlenose dolphins are currently not endangered,some populations have been depleted and thus we still have to protect them in the best ways we can.
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I think you need to do a huge amount more research about cetaceans before claiming that they are at the same level as all other animals. The in depth studies prove that their intelligence is far superior than many mammals including great apes.Β
themindunleashed.org/2014/07/tβ¦
studies have proven that they have complex language Including names which is almost unheard of in other species.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetecβ¦
Dolphins have clearly displayed depression, psychosis and suicidal tendencies due to captivity. One of the most famous cases is the Dolphin that played flipper in the hit to show. She became so depressed she committed suicide in the arms of her trainer Ric O'Barry.
And it's pretty laughable that you think -
1: animal rights activists are going after these animals because their easy pickings?? In the UK (where I live) it has been highly illegal to keep whales and dolphins in captivity since The early 90's, and is currently in the process of doing the same for elephants. This is because it was recognised that they were intelligent and shouldn't be kept in captivity.
2: there are millions of activists and charities that argue the rights of all animals all over the world, not just whales and dolphins.Β
i think you really fail to see the aim of animal rights activists.
They fight for all animals but you can't go after everything all at once, you must pick your battles. Dolphins, whales and Elephants are the most intelligent animals that are still in captivity. They are in fact, VERY AWARE that they are in captivity. Which damages them irreparably and results in violent outbursts.
i have no idea where you got these 'myths' from.
On on average Dolphins swim from between 40 - 100 miles per day ( by radio tracking them) depending on weather and hunting conditions. Pods have been know to change coastlines of entire countries in search of hunting grounds.
seaworld are currently fighting over the rights to own a pod of wild captured beluga whales?
Most orcas bred bred in captivity are inbred resulting in many health issues, including psychosis.
Seaworld claim that the whales n Dolphins they have live a natural lifespan of 17 years for Dolphins and 35 years for orcas, however wild dolphins are now known to live to up to 50 and orcas to 80-90. One has recently been found to be 109.
they mistreat them by keeping them in tanks that are only 3-4 times the length of their body. That's like you spending your entire life in a small swimming pool, eating food that has gelatine added to it to keep your hydration up and being told to do the same tricks every day twice a day every day of your life. Often put in tanks with others they don't know and are forcibly bred with whales/ Dolphins they don't know.
each year Dolphins and whales die from eating things thrown into the pool from the public.
this is just to name a few things.
there is no activist alive that agrees with keeping animals in cages in any shape or form. Parrots (being one of the most intelligent birds) with tear their own feathers out from depression and boredom when caged, and there are a huge amount of activist groups that go against the trade of tropical birds and many that fight against the well being of home bred animals.
i think the problem here isn't that people are being brainwashed by activists, is that people arnt interested in actually doing the RESEARCH into animals rights and see the truth of animals in captivity and who is fighting for what. Whales, Dolphins and Elephants are at the forefront simply because people are becoming aware of the truth. Start by watching a documentary called Blackfish, as it's the most widely known. Then branch out to others such as the Cove etc.
keeping animals for entertainment is wrong in any form. One of the main things you have to think about when going away from this is... If their wasn't a problem, why would their be activists at all? Their is no gain by being an activist, no financial, no glory. It is simply people who have taken the time to learn about the conditions of these animals and decided that what was happening was wrong. Animals have no say in their conditions or what happens to them, be we do.
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The artist mention nothing about abuse, just a thought of how it would be if the animals were able to show emotions. In this case, it's not actually anthropomorphism as it's a mermaid and not a dolphin...
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Hahahahahaha... you think that's actually going to work?
How about you come with some actual arguments instead, for the first time?
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...no, as usual, it won't happen, because you HAVE no arguments. You see that I'm right, you see that I make sense, but you can't handle it, you want to hold on to your irrational beliefs, so you just tell the source of reason to "shut up". A symptom of the dark ages there.
Meanwhile, I can just say: Get educated, loser.
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I thought the same thing, even before reading your description! It's not even only Seaworld, pretty much every business that holds dolphins and whales until they die.
I LOVE this artwork for the powerful message, so much. It even adds more to it that you chose to add a mother and a child walking by and ignoring the mermaid's feelings and need for freedom.
As my answer to your question, I sadly believe humans would keep on making this sort of business even if they clearly saw the emotions of the living beings they use for their business. I mean look at slave traders, they see emotions of their "merchandise" all the time. They just choose to ignore it.
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Sadly i think your right. I would like to have hope in humanity though, maybe we can at least stop large companies keeping them if enough people speak up
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Yes. I think we could definitely do good by informing our new generations, so they never support these sort of things. Because I lost hope when it comes to the other people that got too much into it, the businessmen running these things and their active customers. It seems impossible to open their eyes and hearts. But they will be forced to stop their business when there's no customers buying their shit.
If you truly love, you let live freely. It's as simple as that.
If you want to watch whales in real life, get a boat and visit the sea where they travel around. If you want to visit the Grand Canyon, go out and see it, don't cut out the entire landscape and put them in tiny boxes for you to gawk at. If you don't want to bother nor afford the trouble of this traveling, then accept the fact that you can't have everything in the world, and stop being a selfish bastard.
But that's just me ranting, haha.
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Its horrible to think dolphins and whales all over the world endure this everyday
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Reminds me of the film "Splash", where the mermaid is kept in a big fishtank for research, and she looks so sad :/
I personally believe that cetacea in captivity can be done better than it is now, most of it currently is just for entertainment. But if they were kept in bigger, lagoon-style settings (or walled in sections of bay or ocean), and not forced to do tricks, that might be better. Then again, it's a lot easier just to go on a boat and see wild dolphins, sometimes you can even see them from the beach.
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Thing is these animals travel hundreds of miles a day, bigger enclosures doesnt do anything, its still a cage. Its like being moved from a bath tub to a Jacuzzi for them
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for some reason this causes my mind to see a good movie or a great book
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Thank you, I did think about that actually
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I have always kind of wondered if whales and dolphins are truly happy even with a large pool in captivity... Along with many other land species... I think it is amazing to see them up so close and to be able to learn from them, but I feel a little sympathetic that there are indeed confined in a fenced or caged area...
This piece is very thought provoking and intriguing! Thank you for sharing your art
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You have to understand that whales and dolphins travel thousands of miles everyday, so to be trapped in even a large tank in our eyes, would be like spending your entire life in a bathtub
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Amazing. Β I love how you captured that raw emotion of helplessness. Β The dull, muted colors of the mermaid's fins surrounded by the bright blue color of the pool really speaks out for itself.
Amazing work.Β
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Thank you very much
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You're more than welcome, sir. ^_^
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Yep
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and she looks sad and desperate
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I think this rather confidently expresses its message, and in such a clear way.
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This is a wonderful, powerful piece. You really convey her emotions well, and I love the bright blue colouring the black surrounding it. It almost seems that even the outside of the tank is a cold, terrible place to be.
Wonderful work as always
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Wow I love this. Also the Sea World by where I live uses actual ocean water from the ocean that is slowly filtered in and out every 4 hours. So it is a lot better than the other ones. But I do agree :c poor things have a tough life.
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If it's salt or fresh water it doesn't matter, it's being in captivity that destroys them.
But thank you about my art
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This is a piece that pierces the soul. Very well done.
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Very powerful image,Β Cetacea's always remind's me of Mermaids.Β
And just feeling trapped for rest of there lives, This is why i hate mainlands it's just not 100% natural- and sadly still continue this when we KnowΒ Cetacea'sΒ life spam is cut shorter in captivity due to so many problems they wouldn't normally have in the wild.
Ah beautiful work tho~Β
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