The biggest inspiration spark for my career choice came from a recent warning of nature. In June, my family visited Alaska, seventeen years after my parents visited for the first time. We toured the city of Anchorage, the mountains in Denali, and the fjords in Seward. They are the most beautiful natural wonders I have ever seen. But everywhere, there was the cautionary tale and evidence of climate change in the landscape. A landslide in Denali restricted us from hiking a complete trail, and we witnessed ice calving from Holgate Glacier. The attraction that hit my gut the hardest was hiking up to Exit Glacier and seeing its recession throughout hundreds of years. The year markers were more frequent near its wall to show more recession in recent years, and the river of melted ice raged from its mouth at the bottom. We could walk up to the 2005 marker, when my parents visited, and when I was born. In the time I have been alive, Exit Glacier has receded around 2,000 feet, and somewhere in that time, visitors lost the privilege of walking up to its strong wall of packed ice and touching it. With climate change, we lose the chance and opportunities to view wonders of nature up close, before endangered animals are restricted to enclosed wildlife centers, and glaciers disappear altogether. “See it while you can” is what our kayak guide said later that day. What about the future generations who will never get the chance to experience it? I had already had a desire to bring nature and sustainability into urban life, and now the glacial blue color mixed in, giving a reason, momentum, to my goal. At the visitor center of Exit Glacier, I learned that the park rangers and scientists measured the impact and recession of the glacier through observations and changes in the ecosystem around it. They count tree rings and soil contents of radiocarbon to detect how much water is being melted and released off the glacier and how it has and will affect the ecosystem in the future. As a result, I want the impact of climate change to impact the world as much as it has impacted me. By bringing awareness to the climate emergency to the public, there is a higher chance that everyone will be devoted to reversing its devastation. I want to bring awareness not in a doomsday manner, but in everyday life, showing how small, simple changes to how we live can affect a lot if we change together. The landscape in which we live, learn, and play has raised me to play in the dirt, and I want to continue its lessons to everyone. I have always had a connection to plants, growing over the past few years. I want to employ my knowledge and passion into landscape design and architecture to make impactful art. Art has always been the most impactful inspiration for me, showing the beauty and emotions of what is capable of creators. By combining art and landscape design, I can do a range of possibilities, as long as it supports my philosophy. The changes I am interested in are both regulations that have research to support their role to weaken climate change effects, as well as giving the public inspiration on their part of cleaning their environment. But when the colors and ideas accumulate and spill off my palette, what will be the art I create?