When considering environmental sustainability and art, it allows us to rethink what art really is and the impact it has. Many leans on art for answers about humanity, and some seek it out just for a pop of color in their living rooms. Art is not always meant to just look visually eye catching but intended to be thought-provoking and stimulates unwanted feelings. Current issues in the world cannot always be sugar coated, and the reality of climate change is one of them. Just outside the Cultural Center in the Philippines in Manila, resides this art installation of a dead whale. It is 78 feet long entirely made of plastic. It represents the ocean polluted by the plastic that often ends up inside the bodies of marine life, killing them. This art piece shows the tragic process of pain that which whales experience. This is a piece of the damaging collision of human carelessness and natural life. It is hard to look at, and yet so hard to look away. This is a symbol attributed to the 100,000 annual marine mammal deaths due to polluted plastic. It is so easy to listen to facts, but art such as this shows how authentically real and damaging this is. You do not just react to statistics but see the suffering.