When will we realize?

Gouache on mat board, 12 x 24 inches (33.02 x 60.96 cm)

This piece explains the relationship between the environment and industrialism. It touches on the idea of consumerism and humanity’s need to keep building and destroying the earth with no awareness of their actions.

The bird next to the plane represents the way we are replacing and destroying our natural habitat. Featuring a starless sky—due to light pollution—and wires and string strangling and injuring the life left on earth, this painting asks the question, “When will we realize what we are doing to our world?

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