For two weeks following the first draft of this sketch entitled “The Curious Face in the Pond”, the pond in the sketch became voidless. 

Sketching, reworking, all to nothingness.  Nations gathered to discuss the climate crisis.  The face represents the realisation of Earth’s waters in Edvard Munch style.

Here is the inspiration for my artwork:

As you will see in the photograph there is much impressionism and a surrealist quality to my sketch. Some might regard this as ‘soul sketching’ or Surrealist-Impressionism. The ‘face’ in the pond is clearly an imaginary idea to explain the climate crisis in the context of a literal Nature Reserve.

The beautiful vegetation supporting the pond is somewhat aghast or perplexed at some of the strangely counter-productive large-scale industrial practices reaping havoc upon Earth’s climate. After posting this artwork on social media I wondered if I should create an artwork entitled ‘Rubbish Air and Rubbish Water on a Rubbish Manmade Planet Earth’.

I found this title satisfying, probably to lessen feelings we most all have watching Earth ‘mangle-mired’. That wrote, I actually thought, perhaps my sketch accomplishes that quite awful title.

Why? Well, I just couldn’t draw or sketch the pond. Technically, the pond water was greatly obscured for me to gain any reference to this in the sketch. Ultimately producing a strange, curious idea brought forward into my artwork.

“Proven ecological science must have the ability to directly quantify commercial policies.” – quotation by MΣ

Hope you enjoy my artwork 🙂