"Not for long" 2023

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The subject of the piece is Xiye Bastida, a young Mexican climate change activist who fights for change by touching the world with her words and actions. I used graphite pencils on the main figure to show the absence of color, similar to Mother Earth decaying due to our actions.

Bastida carries a poster that depicts the idea of the world degrading, exemplified by a sand clock that “depends on us” with how much time we have until it’s done. It was done with chalk pastels, with the intention of creating a dirty but cloudy effect on the piece. We can see how the clock is being burned by a match, a human-made item, along with the factory buildings, which represent the human negative impact on the situation.