Series. Waterworld
Title: The Barbrian Trenches
A play on words. Barbarian and barbed. A title that morphed out of looking at this section of mangrove pencil roots and sand. In this case the roots, bristle-like in appearance, set against a gently undulating mud, contours shaped by the retreating tides, remind me not of figures dotting a landscape but more of punji sticks, stingers and caltrops. Sharpened spikes set to snare the enemy. Used with devastating effect in the Vietnam war.
While the high viewpoint over the trenches has an intrinsic beauty, in the tan hues mixed with swatches of Prussian blue, oil residue particles which have collected in the troughs and boughs of this rippled landscape, nevertheless the Barbarian trenches represent menace to all inhabitants of WaterWorld. Great danger. Uncertainty. Risk.
I think we all agree that climate change, and with it the predicted rise in sea temperatures which will encourage an increase in adverse weather, violent storms and typhoons, in addition the anticipated rising of sea levels from melting of the polar ice caps represent danger, uncertainty and risk. Ultimately the risk of our own demise.
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