Friday, August 23, 2024

West of Miami

This digital painting was actually finished about five years ago, but the message encapsulated in the image is still scary and seems even more possible, given the climate changes we've seen--the hottest year in history, more damaging storms, warming oceans (and coral bleaching), melting glaciers and melting of the Greenland ice. 

"West of Miami, 2050," digital painting, 2019
The implication, of course, is that as the sea levels rise, perhaps southern Florida will become a shallow sea. As the changes have accelerated, one wonders if it will be even earlier in this century.

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