Artist: Kevina Malhotra
Age: 12
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: I hope my tiger will never eat animals that were shot with lead bullets, or be captured and put in a zoo with lead paint on old animal enclosures.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing, collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.
Artist: Uwais Oka
Age: 8
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Lead toxicity is highly dangerous to betta fish, causing severe structural damage to their gills, blood chemistry alterations, and neurological failure. While bettas possess a specialized labyrinth organ allowing them to breathe atmospheric air, waterborne heavy metal exposure bypasses this defense, leading to systemic organ damage and death.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from Toxic effects of lead exposure on bioaccumulation, oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, and immune responses in fish: A review (Lee et al 2019).
Artist: Grandma Lead
Lead-safety Message: “Resilience training is a technique that helps you adapt when experiencing difficult situations. You may learn new behaviors, thoughts and actions to get you through challenges, adversity or trauma.” Every organisation and individual on the planet needs resilience training to adapt to climate change and an aging highly-leaded population born in to the century of leaded petrol on earth: 1921-2021.
Description of Work: Lead-Safety Message definition from Cleveland Clinic website. Smart phone photo.
Artist: Grandma Lead
Lead-safety Message: Unleaded children and deleaded children and adults are our hope for a Lead-Safe and Climate-Safe future. Warmer seas must be cooled so jellyfish overpopulation is averted. Smarter adults of the future will have to solve many such problems.
Description of Work: iPhone 13 photos.
Artist: Tenzin Kuenseo
Age: 13
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: UNICEF’s Partnership for a Lead Free Future (PLF) has a vision to create global lead-safety ASAP because as Drew McCartor of Pure Earth puts it: “Lead poisoning causes more deaths annually than all natural disasters, active wars, traffic accidents, HIV, and malaria combined.”
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from A Lead Safe World is in the Frame, at https://lead.org.au/lanv23n2/LANv23n2.pdf
Artist: Kevina Malhotra
Age: 12
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Both the pectin in regular citrus zest and in modified citrus pectin (MCP) can bind to lead inside your digestive tract and help push it out through your stool. Because regular pectin stays in the gut, it cannot reach lead stored in your tissues and organs, whereas MCP has been shown to enter the bloodstream to detox lead without removing essential minerals.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from The effect of modified citrus pectin on urinary excretion of toxic elements (Eliaz et al 2006).
Artist: Junjun Cao
Age: 9
School Name: Creative Einstein
Lead-safety Message: Natural pectin in pears acts locally in your intestines. It binds to lead and other toxins in your food or digestive tract, preventing your body from absorbing them and helping you pass them out through your stool.
Description of Work: Coloured pencil drawing. Lead-Safety Message from Using Pectin as Heavy Metals Detoxification Agent to Reduce Environmental Contamination and health risks (Zhexenbay et al 2020).
Artist: Howard Jacobs
Lead-safety Message: Lucerne in Switzerland is an afternoon’s walk from the village of Malters where Hug AG produced the EDTA biscuits that were eaten by Moroccan pre-schoolers and school-aged children in the study by Bouhouch et al, apparently bringing down their blood lead levels and raising their iron status. Why aren’t EDTA biscuits available globally?
Description of Work: Photo of Lucerne in the afternoon. Message from Effects of wheat-flour biscuits fortified with iron and EDTA, alone and in combination, on blood lead concentration, iron status, and cognition in children: a double-blind randomized controlled trial (Bouhouch et al 2016).
