Kevin L Miller
4×4 ft apocalyptic oil painting on canvas, 2013
Read about it on Miller’s blog.
The Earth is exquisitely beautiful, precious, special and rare. Astronomers and physicists searching the universe for other planets that might support life are telling us that worlds blessed with exactly the right narrow band of conditions for life are indeed extremely rare. Now our Earth-home is in jeopardy from human pollution, causing Global Climate Change. We live in peril of losing our habitat and our health, and endangering the lives of our children and grandchildren if we do not transition to clean energy quickly and stop four kinds of increasingly extreme removal and burning of fossil fuels:
• Fracking for natural gas
• Deep sea oil drilling
• Mountaintop removal coal mining
• Tar sands exploitation and piping
“Check,” is the lower left corner detail from “The Flood.” I have grown impatient with subtler communications when it comes to climate change, because our window of opportunity to fix it is closing. Time’s up! So now I try to spell out exactly what my paintings mean. I hope this check does the trick.