Artist Creates Incredibly Realistic Finger Drawings To Raise Climate Change Awareness

At first glance, these images look like like photos of glaciers and icebergs afloat on tranquil and frigid seas. The truth is somewhat more interesting, however – they’re enormous soft pastel finger drawings by U.S. artist Zaria Forman.

Forman’s works often span an entire wall. She doesn’t use any drawing tools, only her palms and fingers, to smudge the pastel pigment into the paper.

She is an environmentally conscious artist, so many of her works, whether depicting glaciers, bodies of water or storm fronts, focus on the problems we face in terms of water conservation, melting polar ice, and rising sea levels.