Original artwork description:

The painting depicts the future effects of global warming on our environment and the human race. The blue skies are tinged with a dark and hazy layer filled with acid rain. The buildings are laced with a smoky haze from the pollution emanating from the carbon dioxide, air pollutants, and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The sun bearing its immense heat has exposed layers of intensity with gradients of yellow, orange, and red. The immense heat and hostile conditions affect the appearance of human beings as they adapt to the turbulent world. The skin is adapting to the changes by acquiring certain mutations affecting their pigmentation and general appearance, such lesions and a change in the configuration of the eyes to reduce the glare being absorbed by the eyes. The bodies of the subjects in the painting are bare due to the immense heat, However, it is being used a metaphor, since layers of clothing would be more suitable to avoid succumbing to the elements The bare bodies symbolize how vulnerable the earth and the human race are to climate change. Although the painting attempts to illustrate a possible "future", it lends itself to make the human race know that such a bleak existence can be stopped from being actualized at any time.

Materials used:

acrylic, soft pastels

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