Free the beach
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Acrylic on canvas
As sea levels rise, if you want to preserve a beach you will need to let it migrate inland or the sand will get sucked offshore. We should be planning for this for selected beaches now. The painting is based on a poem I wrote last year: Can you hear them knocking? Ten trillion grains of sand Knocking twice a day Knocking at the sea wall Trying to find a way. If you refuse them where will they go, Dancing in circles on the ebb and flow? Gradually departing, on each swell - Waving farewell. |
Bikes on top
Powerpoint graphic
Cars have paved the way for bikes, both literally (by providing paved access ways) and figuratively by clogging streets and polluting the air. Cars generally give us the freedom to do things quickly and when we want to, and society now has expectations based on this, but times are changing and bikes will gain more prominence.
Cars have paved the way for bikes, both literally (by providing paved access ways) and figuratively by clogging streets and polluting the air. Cars generally give us the freedom to do things quickly and when we want to, and society now has expectations based on this, but times are changing and bikes will gain more prominence.
Changing climate: no more pines please
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Acrylic on canvas
This is an adaption of E Munch's The Scream. In his paintings the figure screaming is the environment personified screaming at pollution. In this adaption, the scream is reacting to the desecration that has occurred in New Zealand following cyclones and the flushing of tree debris out to the coast from pine plantations. With climate change the frequency and intensity of cyclones will increase, along with the occurrence of droughts and forest wildfires. Planting more pine plantations, particularly to offset emissions, seems illogical and foolhardy. |
