Oil on Canvas
© 1996
66" x 96"
Mark looked forward to
painting the piece for a long time.
He enjoyed giving a personal aspect to each of the many
people in the crowd scenes.
It took him well over 6 months to finish this one. The
bacteria and virus shapes are as realistic as possible.
He took some liberty with their colors as some can only be
seen through electromicroscopes.
A warped "figure 8" defines the sections of the painting. A
starving skeletal figure reaps the earth.
At the center a vortex sucks in life and spews out lines of
sterile products. A small boy in shopping cart points his
toy gun at Mom as she shops.
Below, Mother Nature's champions, virus, bacteria, the only
predator left capable of bringing balance to our
overpopulation are poised for a feast. The purple spheres,
"AIDS", the hotdogs are ecoli bacterium, the striped snakes
are Ebola, and the green globs are amoebic dysentery. The
golden balls are man-created retrovirus weapons, loosed on
ourselves.
Humans look like a gourmet treat. The predators attack the
closest humans, while authority figures rattle their useless
weapons at the coming onslaught. Politicians, preachers, the
media, the military, are all focused on the symptoms rather
than the causes of the problem.
Our needless and self-evident rush to procreate and consume
fill the right quadrants full of tenements with a population
out of control as religious leader proclaim that man has a
special privilege to destroy everything. .
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