Chiyan Meng
Design Thinking (Fall ’23)
2 min readOct 19, 2023

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Last month I visited an art gallery at the Center Pompidou in Paris, which featured a collection of modern art pieces that combined the beauty of nature with urban elements. Among many exhibits, this work triggered my in-depth thinking and reflection on the close connection between the environment and human life.

The reason I chose this piece to reflect on is its unique creativity and deep meaning. In this painting, the natural beauty of the landscape contrasts with the modern bath shower.

This painting expresses a profound message: by adding the bathing showerhead to the landscape background in the later stage, the author successfully conveyed the close connection between man and nature. The water resources used by people daily actually come from the beautiful big lake behind. Naturally, I am very happy that the background of this work is a beautiful landscape, everything is so lively, but I also think this is a wake-up call from the author to mankind. If mankind does not pay attention to saving all kinds of resources given by nature, resources, so what will the background of this work look like? We need to cherish and protect these precious natural resources.

This painting echoes the theme of environmental protection discussed in class. In class, we learned about the impact of human activities on the environment and how to take steps to protect our environment. This painting reminds us that the seemingly insignificant things in our daily lives are actually inextricably linked to nature. It calls on people who see it to save all resources in life, because these resources are taken from nature.

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