Title: “We've been waiting for you.”
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 100 cm x 120 cm
Year: 2024
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 100 cm x 120 cm
Year: 2024
This painting is inspired by a quote I encountered multiple times during my research for the AFK: "Welcome to the end of the world, we've been waiting for you," originally spoken by a resident of the Amazon. These words expose the inequality in the impact of climate change: while the majority of emissions come from the West, it is often the poorer regions of the world that bear the consequences first.
"A frequently cited statistic, from Our World in Data, contends: one person in the US consumes as much energy as 2 French, 11 Indians, 24 Ghanaians, 82 Afghans, and 329 Somalians."
"A frequently cited statistic, from Our World in Data, contends: one person in the US consumes as much energy as 2 French, 11 Indians, 24 Ghanaians, 82 Afghans, and 329 Somalians."