Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment

Abstractions from the Devastated Environment


As David Maisel says there is “aesthetic beauty in the rejected subject”. He is referring to the work him, and others like Edward Burtynsky, the Canadian photographer, have done in documenting man’s destruction of his environment the world over. For the past 9 months, using a variety of materials and media such as acid on rusted steel, as well as conventional oil on canvas, I have tried to capture the essence of the earth’s degradation. As the saying goes “there is no planet B”.