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Post-Apocalyptic Paintings of Animals Are Beautifully Gloomy

Mihai Andrei by Mihai Andrei
July 30, 2015
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The dark paintings of Martin Wittfooth depict a beautiful yet frightening world – only animals, no humans, but with a desolate landscape likely caused by our species. We see a world of animals suffering, desperately trying to adapt to the scorched world that we’ve created – much like we’re seeing now, in the real world. Their suffering is masked by beautifully drawn flowers or sparks – much like we, humans, are trying ignoring the damage we’re causing, hiding everything under the rug of our comfortable lives.

Everywhere and at all times, we’ve been busy making things in our present for the simple purpose of communicating something, and thus sending messages into our future. What a peculiar habit. We’re the only species inhabiting this planet that routinely behaves this way, and there’s something really beautiful and profound about that. (Source)

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His paintings are an artistic way of depicting the consequences of global warming, pollution and habitat destruction that we are inflicting upon animals. It’s not only a tragic potential future, but it’s also a cruel reminder that we are causing it now – the fact that he chose such beautiful art to depict it makes it even more cruel. We need to acknowledge that we are doing this, and fast – it’s the only way to actually convince people to act and conserve what can be conserved.

I often think about what the psychedelic thinker Terence McKenna called “The Archaic Revival”: a yearning to look into the past to see meaning, connection, the sacred, looking back at us. I need those reminders sometimes, when the current state of human affairs seems dire and in need of a new perspective. (Source)

Oh, and if you’re not convinced that we’re causing massive extinction, here are just a few titles for you to consider:

  • We’re heading towards a sixth major extinction
  • 60% of large herbivores on the verge of extinction, bleak study finds
  • Earth enters its 6th mass extinction phase, humans accelerate the losses
  • The Sixth Grand Extinction Will Be ‘Invisible’
  • Marine life might need 1,000 years to recover from climate change

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Andrei's background is in geophysics, and he's been fascinated by it ever since he was a child. Feeling that there is a gap between scientists and the general audience, he started ZME Science -- and the results are what you see today.

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