What's Next For Earth

This painting depicts a derelict farmstead in the Tijuana River Valley that I have observed slowly disintegrating and being overcome by the natural surroundings, an abandoned relic of independent farming. Farmers left the region owing to a combination of globalization and flooding that brought with it contaminated water, silt and refuse, an issue that continues in the region today. The ruins of old farmsteads and remnants of agricultural fields, now returning to their natural habitat, remain. “The pendulum has recently swung much too far in favor of globalization and centralization, and a rebalancing is in order.”