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Collage titled Ecology

Ecology

1989-90
Photocopy, flywire mesh, paper cutout and airbrushed oil colour
56 x 41 cms

The several scenes of people up to their necks in water that recur in the Vietnam war film, Apocalypse Now, fascinated me as a metaphor for the moral and political mire of that conflict. In this collage the theme is retooled into an environmental scenario of two figures in quicksand contemplating a wasted landscape.