”Help!”

16”x5”x4” 2020 April, encaustic painting on birch wood sculpture.

This was my second collaborative project with my wood sculptor/ scientist friend Vince. I really love the way this one turned out. Intellectual and aesthetic values are in good alignment.

I have included an "in progress" photo as well as a picture that shows what this sculpture looked like before I started painting on it. (With all the masking tape, she looked quite like a mummy for a while. :)) Vince had a vision of a woman drowning under water - then I took it further and turned her into Mother Earth suffocating from the gases emitted by power plants, and the plastic waste wrapped around her head. I intended this piece to raise awareness of the climate change and the dangers of plastic pollution. – with Vince Pane