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WIND This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye. At noon I scaled along the house-side as far as The coal-house door. Once I looked up - Through the brunt wind that dented the balls of my eyes The tent of the hills drummed and strained its guyrope, The fields quivering, the skyline a grimace, At any second to bang and vanish with a flap; The wind flung a magpie away and a black- Back gull bent like an iron bar slowly. The house Rang like some fine green goblet in the note That any second would shatter it. Now deep In chairs, in front of the great fire, we grip Our hearts and cannot entertain book, thought, Or each other. We watch the fire blazing, And feel the roots of the house move, but sit on, Seeing the window tremble to come in, Hearing the stones cry out under the horizons. Ted Hughes. The piece is about context, our place on Earth, within the solar system within the galaxy, within the universe. Our home and place on Earth is vulnerable and we are relative newcomers. Despite our dominion over the rest of the inhabitants of the planet we remain at the mercy of the elements and the cosmos. Due to the human race's exponential expansion we are sabotaging of the planet through polution. A difference of three degrees will have a significant effect on the welfare of all of humanity. Diseases such as Malaria and Dengue will increase, settlements near water will be flooded, population movement will increase. 50% of the population of Earth currently live in cities, these populations will increase, slums will expand. Disastrous, extreme weather events will become signicantly more frequent.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:90 W x 30 H x 1 D in

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