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oil on canvas, 51cmX41cmI had met a professor of botany who is very active in environment issues these days in India. He had come to my exhibition there and requested that I do something on Climate Change.This is how I see the issue.
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I love it.
when I started my approach the topic of Sustainability, I told my Teacher, this is like returning to the begining, to re-learn the nature's way.
human has been wrong assuming that progress is nature's destruction, to change radically nature's way. We can make progress obeying nature's rules, we could end a lot of trobles that way...
here's a link where they showed me that: [link]
greetings from Mexico
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Thanks
I looked up the holistic management site, thanks for the link.
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you are welcome
hope you found something useful
I was in an internship at the West Ranch 
I learned a lot!
and I miss Texas....
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alright!
Nice of you to have pointed that out, I would never know otherwise - girl in the green jacket with a brown collar then! Nice meeting you, Janice.
have a look at another one from me, the first frame on the left on the wall shows a similar thing- a child feeding an animal.
The painting is called 'frames gone astray' - meaning, our reference frames have gone haywire.
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This picture seems to speak of degeneration rather than regeneration in some respects
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correct.
In fact only when I decided on the title that I realised Darwin callled his work - 'descent' of man rather than 'ascent' of man - even if he talked of evolution!
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Which stage do you think evolution should have really stopped at then? I love your concept!
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Again this one has a moral story. Very descriptive too. A very earthy feel to it
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thanks
on scond thoughts I feel there should have been perhaps bigger distance between the two sides - the forest and the desert. May be I didn't have a larger canvas, and was just lazy to go buy one.
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It's something I must confess that had not occurred to me. It is said that a person can be their own worst critic
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i don't share the same view with other users. The destruction of the enviroment is inevitable as one tends to add artificial constructs. There is NO solution to this, no matter how much these hard-bitten enviromentalists would blabber about nothing and boffins try to create enviro-friendly materials. And face it, today's appliances are more than a commodity or a tool for that matter: a PC is a part of your life, but without being histrioniacal, do you have any idea how much pollution was made into creating that tiny box?
I'm rather pro destroy the planet, move to another. But also, if you're uncapable to preserve what you need, it means you don't really deserve to live as a race. But as His Will and benevolence is beyond any imaginable limit, he does allows us to develop as we are. Compared to Him, we are metaphorical worms in terms of willpower.
which brings me to my next point: computers are the greatest artificial construct humanity has achieved so far. They are still linear and uncapable of thought, as we are still stuck in the electron universe and are unable to break the barrier to the quantum world. We are still blunt in our approach, and if we were really that advanced, we wouldn't concern ourselves with pitiful issues such as enivroment preservation.
Also, returning to that creationist argument: statistically, the odds of those complex proteins (i.e. DNA)appearing while the earth was in a state of primordial soup are quite little from a cosmic point of view. I'm a sceptic and a man without beleif myself, but presuming that some greater Will allowed worms to exist in this parctiular corner of the unimaginable infinite universe, why wouldn't it allow to develop even if it's in a degraded state? perhaps that was the Will possesor's plan?
The answer is that I do not know. No human does. You should ask your professor the same question.
Putting it in a no nonsense manner, is it really worth going back to the stoneage? A lot of idealists like the controvered Unabomber think it is, but none realises what this actually implies.
A simpler life would be the answer; try telling this to the greedy businesspersons who deliberatedly promote consumerism among the weak-willed.
If your really want to cause evil, then just wreak havoc among them, why only use lame neutral techniques? The weak-willed should be helped by us all, but they really don't know they want and need our help.
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if you're uncapable to preserve what you need, it means you don't really deserve to live as a race.
I quite agree with your viewpoint.There is no end to the arguments of why it happened so and how it can still be controlled. The spiral, to me is well out of control by now and the efforts of the environmentalists are pathetic.
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I love the message here....we must return to nature! Thoreau lives on! (google him)
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I love the women in the background, esp. the one in the red dress with the big bottom. Women just don't seem to appreciate their curves anymore & she looks very feminine & beautiful.
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lol,
that really is her dress flared up so much. Her bare bottom would not be that big I am sure!
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This is a really great depiction of the materialism that is the downfall of human relations with their environment. I enjoyed reading some of the other comments you've gotten on this piece, as well. Especially the one by Decarabia69.. his reference to the bumper sticker on the Hummer.
We think that we've done our part for the environment if we recycle, reduce, reuse, and jump on the bandwagon that is popular right now. But it is mostly lip-service. The mass population of western society just doesn't get the fact that it is our own greed and materialism that is wasting the resources which keep us alive. It's not enough to recycle all the junk we buy. We just have to stop buying it! We wouldn't have to recycle plastic if we didn't manufacture plastic. Oh, there is so much more I could say about this, but I think you have hit the nail on the head!
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thank you so much Dawn.
I am on the editorial board of a scottish educational magazine, promoted by the scottish government, the magazine goes to all the schools here and is suppoed to be devoted to issues of Development Education - as a resource tools for teachers. We had our meeting last week for the next issue - on the topic of climate change.
All others - local - could talk of carbon emission from the third world - esp China and India, and Al Gore's fix-it-all 'green technology'. Well-intentioned and reasonably well-informed/educated people - they do not realise that 'green' is the latest in marketing ruse.I told them that this is just cosmetic tinkering - real issue you got to address is - do we change our life-style. 'manufacture plastic' as you put it.
This subject has been in my mind since my last exhibition in India, as mentioned under the pic but the discussion of last week made me take it up immediately.
thanks for the fav too.
[And good to hear from you after a while, was waiting for your response to my last couple of pics too but you must have been busy]
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To tell you the truth, you are very well versed in the areas of global manufacturing practices and the unethical practices of governments worldwide. Your last few paintings had much to do with these issues.
These subjects are not ones that I myself are very informed about. I love to educate myself about such matters when the opportunities arise. But lately I have little time or energy for learning new things. Not lazy, just busy, as you said. I look forward to the very near future when I will plunge myself into another phase of my self-education! And I know that you have much to contribute to that!
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Very interesting idea!
Evolution and degradation in one pic.
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yes, like in Konenberg movies!
thanks for the fav, my friend.
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thank you so much
and thanks for the fav too.
I have been following your photography quite ardently and immensely enjoy it though I may not be commenting on each and every piece.
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my pleasure. thanks. i'm glad U are enjoying my pics!!!!
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thank you very much, Juliette.
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It no coincidence that native cultures all over the world decry our dependence on technology and the modern world. We are willingly losing those things that make us uniquely human and all for the sake of a temporary gratification.
Advertising and technology have become the surrogate mother to nature and the earth and like idiot children we are entranced by the baubles dangled in front of us!
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yes, that is my point - that you can not drool over Dior and lament the environmental degradation in the same breath.
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Or, as is often the case here in the U.S. have a yellow, magnetic "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" ribbon on the bumper of a Hummer. People don't stop to think of the irony behind that sentiment!
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Interesting subject, I like the composition and the movement it conveys, it makes the whole piece quite "narrative".
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yes, thanks
Good that you mention the 'narrative' aspect. This image could be used by one of the magazines in Scotland in their issue on Climate Change. Such a narrative image might be useful to them, perhaps.
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we have to struggle against that! poor trees, and poor humanity....
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Poor trees, yes
but humanity has done it itself - it is more idiot, really.And now everyone pays for its mistakes.
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yes, you're right. "poor humanity" was ironic..
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you can always trust me for being slow!!
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