Painting

Sunken City

16 in x 12in | Acrylic paint on canvas board | 2024

To enter into the Bow Seat Ocean Awareness climate change contest, I strove to create a hypothetical future of what our world would look like if we allow the sea levels to rise. The red traffic lights indicate to "stop" and make a change, or our daily lives would appear drastically different. The bus's indicated location, Ocean Beach, is a location in San Francisco that has fallen victim to rising sea levels and erosion, its shorelines vanishing over the years.