Artwork / 2024 / I Want You to Take Care of Our Planet (Aunt Sam)

a bee wearing an Uncle Sam hat, propaganda poster asking you to take care of our planet, environmentalist art by New Jersey artist Gwenn Seemel
Gwenn Seemel
I Want You to Take Care of Our Planet (Aunt Sam)
2024
acrylic on paper
14 x 11 inches

$400

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This is a remix of the Uncle Sam World War I poster that famously says “I want you for US army.” I thought that non-human animals could use some help recruiting humans to take care of the planet, and I made a French version of this image too, painting the bee as Marianne, the National Emblem of France.

You can watch the making of I Want You to Take Care of Our Planet.