Art Work Rhetorical Analysis

The Artwork piece that I chose is called "Weeping Leaf".  The creator/artsist of "Weeping Leaf" is a man named Ken Sprague(1927-2004).  He was a socialist political cartoonist, journalist, and activist.  Sprague was involved with trade unions, civil rights, and peace movements.  He was known as a cartoonist for the people and was very interested on how ordinary people effect politics and vice-versa.      

The cartoon, "Weeping Leaf" has an environmental theme.  It deals with the age old domination of man over nature.  The cartoon more directly deals with the issue of logging.  This is a tradition in its own right and there are deep roots of logging in American and European history.  The cartoon is political and environmental because the two have become intertwined as man has realized the wealth in nature and used it.  Now it seems that man has realized the necessity for nature and it is becoming clearer everyday that we(man) are dependent on nature to survive.  So this cartoon can take the environmental theme and pin-point down to the issue of logging but can also explode into a political statement about the incoherent value of nature or Global Warming or human ignorance.