The Great Wall of China Artwork

The digital painting aspires to be a conceptual speculation on the political realizations in Franz Kafka’s ‘the Great Wall of China’. It illustrates how a very similar mind-set of what the Wall represented for the main character in the story has continued until today. Description: The first scene on the left is rural southern china in the 14th century - Southern Chinese people were actively part of building the Wall to protect China from the ‘people from the north’ – this fear however became a figment of people’s imagination, a phantom, which they were influenced to believe in order to work towards the greater good of the country – in reality there was a very small chance that ‘the people from the north’ would ever reach southern China. The second scene criticises Chinese cities today, as well as most cities in the world with high demand/consumption and little care to where all the waste generated is disposed. Cities keep building a great wall of an oncoming disaster and people believe it is a figment of their imagination if they ever hear of it or see images of it, because they have not personally experienced it. However there are people who see and live in this debris today, without being able to do anything about it. The ‘city’ and ‘urban life’ has become an ideal with too many repercussions to nature and it’s ecosystems. In the third scene the wall becomes an impregnated and inhabited element in which individual pockets allow their own biosphere/ecosystem to flourish and all together create a living cycle. Similar to what Dickson Despommier says in his book ‘The Vertical Farm’, we have the technology today to develop systems, which create no waste and if nature can do it, then we need to do it as well. In this scenarion the phantom is the previous scene, which has turned into an intelligent network of clever ecosystems guided by people. The aim is to encourage that we start relieving Nature’s Ecosystems from all the pressure we put on them, and start allowing them to regenerate.

Mixed Media:Photography on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:46.8 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in

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