Here is a recent work of mine, painted in record time on a 50x50 cm, thick cardboard sheet. I painted it a few weeks ago, when it was not yet hot and I didn't have to darken my room during the day, so I could work in natural light. It depicts a stylised tree with a foliage of flames, a fitting representation of the present and time ahead, with the terrible drought and heat that is scorching our country into a desert.
This unfavourable process was started by us humans, or more precisely by the country's leaders 150 years ago, who regulated our rivers, cut down forests and ploughed up vast areas. The climate has changed during this time, and summers have become drier and hotter. When I was a child, we had much more rain and temperatures rarely went above 30 degrees. Now it is 35 degrees almost all summer, with no rain anywhere except in the Transdanubian region.
And yes, we need trees, ten times as many as we have now! But not trees with flaming canopies!
This picture was a foretaste of an unfavourable future. But it doesn't have to be! I always have problems with red, that "infernal" colour. It is originally the carrier of life, like blood, and the colour of passion, but when there is too much of it, it burns and scorches everything.
The restless and boisterous, aggressive red can only be offset by a cool colour, a dark blue or a soothing and healing green.
I'm not saying that I caused the heat, but painting is a kind of magic act, and I certainly contributed a little to it. We control and shape our future with our thoughts and actions! I'll put the painting away now, out of sight, and only take it out when I need to when it gets really cold in the winter.