"Betrayal" is a digital art piece uploaded by Mario Sanchez Nevado on 2012.
Nevado is a freelance art director, Illustrator, and Photographer born in
Barcelona, and he currently lives in Spain where he mainly creates CD album
cover art for music bands. This art piece serves as a message towards everyone
in regards to global warming and pollution which has become a large issue for
today’s society. His work portrays humans as quite literally betraying mother
nature by killing her despite all the life she supports including ours, and
Nevado created this most likely as an effort to raise more awareness of just
how drastic the effects of human activities are becoming for the sake of money.
Looking to the right side
of the painting, the hand holding the gun appears to be smoldering hot, causing
even the skin above to be damaged by it. This represents how humans are
collectively causing the Earth to rise in temperature in the form of global
warming while simultaneously damaging themselves, and yet the hand still holds
the gun firmly as if to ignore the repercussions of it all. The gun itself,
carrying a city upon the frame, is a clear indicator of what the major source
of global warming is originating from. This city is all black, giving it an ominous
and toxic appearance as it pumps out an equally black smog that begins to
invade the light and purity of mother nature. The city’s placement gives off an
idea of being directly built on the presence of this threat in order to thrive
since, without it, there would be nothing for the city to be built on. All of
these little details add up to show humans holding mother nature at gunpoint,
expressing how drastic and effect our actions are producing by implying that we
are essentially murdering our Earth for the sake of profit and corporations to
keep these cities that rest on the gun operating.
On the left side of the
picture, we see mother nature in a form quite literally symbolized by a
feminine and delicate figure. She shows no resistance to the threat being
presented to her as if there is nothing she can do about it except shed tears
in response to being killed by her own product of evolution. This concept of
being unable to resist translates to the reality that is the Earth’s inability
to simply recover or defend itself from what we are doing to it. The pollution
and harmful effects of our actions are damaging and killing our Earth, and it
has no way of fighting back against it unless we take away the gun ourselves.
Overall, Nevado has painted a powerful image that grabs our attention and is
hopefully causing more people to see the consequences of our choices as a global
society. It shows our actions to the true extent of their repercussions and
helps viewers bring the large-scale Earth down to perspective.
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