Wrath

Ink and Acrylic on Mountboard, 26.5 x 37.9 cm, 2020

This piece is part of my “Seven Deadly Sins Against the Earth” series. As we continue to destroy the planet through our harmful dependence on Oil, the planet is reacting in ways that are of our own doing. We are facing the Wrath of Mother Nature’s reaction to our mistreatment of the planet. Our endless pollution and overuse of fossil fuels has caused Global warming that is creating larger and more devastating weather systems, storms and harsher seasons to name a few issues! I have represented this by showing Mankind forcibly squeezing Oil out of the planet and showing the thick black polluting smoke emitted from burning Fossil fuels rising into our atmosphere. I have chosen to show the South American region of the Earth in this piece as the Amazon rainforest is one of the main “lungs” of the planet that helps clean our air that we are also destroying through deforestation. In this image I show the Earth reacting to the Climate Crisis and show its Wrath in the form of a mega storm developing and also creeper vines trying in vain to stop mankind’s endless overuse of Fossil Fuels.