Aral Sea 1960
Regular price
$3,650.00
Signed
Unique 1 of 1
Copper leaves on engraved acrylic, skull detail #2
Jatoba wood frame
3 kg 70 x 54.5 x 2.5 cm
6.8 lb 27 1⁄2 x 21 1⁄2 x 1 in
Located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Aral was once the fourth largest in-land sea in the world.
By establishing a program to promote agriculture and especially that of cotton, Soviet government led by Khrouchtchev in the 1950s deliberately deprived the Aral Sea of its two main sources of water, leaving disastrous consequences for the communities relying on its waters.
From satellite database images, I retrace significant bodies of water disappearing or permanently altered by human activities, thus depicting the Anthropocene Era(se).
