Artist: Devrim Yasar
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Another global warming and lead connection: During droughts, shrinking water holes can concentrate heavy metals like lead. As water levels fall, elephants are forced to consume sediment, mud, and water with high concentrations of contaminants.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing, side panels added in Paint and Powerpoint. Lead-Safety Message from Google AI Assistant.
Artist: Mavis Zhou
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Because Seahorses are generally poor swimmers and inhabit coastal areas, they are highly vulnerable to pollutants like lead which causes deformities and population decline. Don’t let lead enter stormwater, rivers or the ocean.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. mirrored in Paint and Powerpoint. Lead-Safety Message from Google AI Assistant.
Artist: David Suh
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Great White sharks have been found to have alarmingly high concentrations of lead, mercury, and arsenic – enough to kill other species – but researchers don’t yet know how they survive. “There’s a possibility that sharks have potentially important metal binding proteins, that … [move]… these metals …from the blood to the tissues.”
Description of Work: Lead Safety Message from Sharks cope with levels of heavy metals in their blood that would kill other animals, CBC Radio Canada (April 19, 2019). Coloured pencil drawing.
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Kookaburras can ingest lead particles from soil contaminated by old paint, discarded ammunition, or fishing weights, often mistaking these materials for grit.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead Safety Message from Google AI Assistant.
Artist: Kevina Malhotra
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Shading shapes to make them look 3-dimensional is challenging. Getting lead out of people to give them a better chance of a smart healthy future is even more challenging. Its possible everyone alive today could be deleaded by oral EDTA, but many obstacles must first be overcome.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead Safety Message from www.leadtox.blog of Dr Ulrich Mack, BSc PhD (UQ Medicine).
Artist: Khangai Davaasuren
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: The most famous example of a cave system containing crystals associated with lead mining is the Cave of the Crystals (Cueva de los Cristales) in the active Naica Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico. While the massive crystals themselves are made of selenite (gypsum), the surrounding mine is a primary source of lead, zinc, and silver.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Message from Google AI Overview.
Artist: Yuna Marquez
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: In the old days, the pigments in white, yellow, orange, red, green and brown pencil cores were lead pigments and only blue pencil cores were lead-free. With lead paint on the outside of pencils, people who chewed pencils were often lead poisoned. Now all coloured pencils in Australia are lead free inside and out.
Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper
Artist: Leah Du
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Being the most common heavy metal, lead is most often associated today with the dark side of life… a cause of a lowering of population IQ and of early death from all causes. But in the past, people loved the bright yellow, orange, red and green lead pigments in paints that still lead poison unwary DIY renovators today.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. References for Message: Model National Lead Safety Policy by The LEAD Group Inc charity, and Use of Lead in Paint in NSW – When and Where it was Used by John Hartley.
Artist: Mavis Zhou
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: If humans continue to burn Australia’s coal and gas as if there’s no tomorrow and we all keep burning petrol/oil until all fossil fuels are burned, small islands like these will be underwater due to global warming melting ice caps and raising sea levels.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing.
Artist: Kevina Malhotra
Age: 11
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Richard Turnbull’s case study says healthy food choices like coconut oil instead of meat fat, likely contributed to the steady fall in his blood lead level while taking daily lemon, garlic and greens.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from Deleading with healthy lifestyle interventions Lead detox with saunas, lemon, garlic, greens, etc after eradicating potential current lead exposure, at https://lead.org.au/lanv19n4/LANv19n4-28.pdf
