Ghibli, 2019

Working in Eygalieres, France during a 10 day artist in residency. I wanted to depict the landscape, but a landscape at odds with itself. A landscape not of the picturesque but one which reflects burden of both the history of landscape painting and the modern economic system in which we have found ourselves. .. Reflecting upon the overwhelming data concerning climate change and inequality.The Ghibli is named after the “hot dry desert wind from Arabia" Thinking about passages of winds and migration of people groups throughout the Earth, namely through Vingtmilia and the Alps -the present problems of Late Capitalism . . Building upon themes around Late Capitalism presented in Signs of Civilisation (2018) @nandahobbs the themes of otherness and migration of embracing forms of thinking and cultures that are different than my own The spirit of openness is critical to progression as a society and continue and to counter ideology that is currently on the rise in both America,Brazil, Hungary amongst others.