Description
High quality print on a gloss paper of original painting:
Pyjama Squid Armageddon (2021-2023)
By Elizabeth Solich, oil on canvas, recycled materials.
Width: 76.2 cm Height: 101.60 cm
Sepioloidea lineolata or more commonly known as the striped pyjama squid or the striped dumpling squid is a type of bottletail squid, inhabits the Indo-Pacific Oceans of Australia. Recently, on result of the global warming, this endemic Australian species has moved to Belgium. More than 80% of earth’s marine life is migrating to different places and changing their breeding and feeding patterns due to warming waters. Ocean species are migrating in response to a changing climate 10 times faster than land species. Warmer waters threaten to cause mass migration of marine species in search of the right conditions for feeding and spawning. Rising temperatures also increase the risk of irreversible loss of marine and coastal ecosystems. Today, widespread changes have been observed, including damage to coral reefs and mangroves that support ocean life, and migration of species to higher latitudes and altitudes where the water could be cooler. Inspired by Belgian surrealist René Magritte this painting is fun, but it also makes us aware of the falsity of representation.
