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Bear Essentials

( Size: 59" x 47" Oils )

Subjects in the painting:

The bear represents the breakdown of the superpower, Russia. Along with its counterpart, the U.S.A they are without doubt the largest contributors to world pollution on land and sea. Contributing by stealth they are knowingly aiding the decimation of our land and sea mammals to extinction with their current policies.

Bear Essentials Therefore the flora and fauna depicted in the painting represent the inane acts of wanton killing for the furtherance of greed. Mega conglomerates hold great power's within owr society, they have the ability to manipulate governments into their stratagem for greater profit without consideration for the long tenn consequences to our surroundings our health or the ecosystems that enable the flora and fauna to coexist along with modern man. Man is the dominant animal on Earth but as only been here a relatively short period. The more advanced we have become demonstrates that issues like climate change, land erosion, deforestation, species annihilation, eventual extinction of rare flora and fauna are not being addressed.

Top left hand corner a levitating figure less suit emitting sharp thorny tendrils, they in turn intertwine the fragmented wall, skull, dome area exiting the painting to the right. This represents a religious connotation, the Christian ideal of a hyper physical being residing in the outer cosmos. The Christian movement from its humble beginnings is unrecognizable today. Schisms have formed due to differences of opinion, ideology and internecine strife. Today the church is all powerful, it does not like change, it sits on the fence especially when environmental and social issues come to the fore. The church and politics are hand in glove, both strive for power over individuals minds, control means stability.

Enjoy the painting, I hope they give you, the onlooker an insight into the way I perceive our environment.

E.W.Powell 12/2003. Painting completed 2003.

Complexity comment:

Greed, along with the arrogance that usually accompanies it, is perhaps the most insidious of human emotions. The world today suffers from an addiction far more devastating than alcoholism, or drugs or even AIDS, and that is 'money'. The never satisfied, endless pursuit of growing 'profit' is itself a medical abnormality, a one-dimensional pathological disregard of the other functions of body and mind, of the societies to which we belong, and of the planet that sustains us. Malthus, back in 1803, recognised the total impossibility of endless growth, so why today do CEO's still pursue this ridiculous aim, and why do governments still reward them for this mad endeavor ?

Malthus supposed that with an endlessly growing population that humans would eventually perish from a simple lack of food, little did he suspect that the human race would deliberately choose to poison itself to death ever more quickly - by destroying the entire planetary ecosystem with their pointless (and escalating) consumption and pollution...

Bigger, better, BUST.

Page Version 1.0 December 2003
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