No Time to Waste.
Eco-Art Competition 2021.

The 7 year climate clock, an approximate countdown of the time the world has remaining to reverse the effects of climate change, is ticking. With each sunrise and sunset, we come closer to an irreversible reality. Scientists have proven beyond doubt that climate change is caused by mankind through the untold destruction we have wrought on our planet. However, belief in this scientific fact is unfortunately influenced by our political party affiliations, socio-economic strata and education, with more educated or wealthy people believing it more than others. We are losing forest cover, polluting our water supplies and the seas, wrecking ecosystems and habitats. This is impacting our food supply, flooding our coastal communities, and displacing people from homes affected by forest fires. Even deep inland, some of the world’s cities are becoming unfit to live with their air difficult to breathe. Health effects across our societies of air pollution, chemical contamination and nuclear fallouts are far reaching. Climate destruction is the most pressing issue of our time and the effects lie right in front of our eyes. My work captures the dire urgency of the environmental crisis. I show a cut tree stem as the neck of Mother Earth, shedding oil tears at the destruction. Various parts of her face display the devastation we are causing. However, all is not lost yet – we still have the opportunity to make amends and reverse some of the change. Therefore I have left parts of the face as blank pages, and titled my painting as ‘Fill in the Future’. It is for us to determine, whether the actions we take now with the little time we have left will make the blank pages of the face look like the rest, or turn them green and full of life. I purposely created various textures