I haven't drawn anything for a long time, but a couple of days ago I got some inspiration to create a new painting called Harsh Planet.
Cataclysms, lava flows, predatory dragons plow its heavenly expanses, scanty landscapes, but, the blue waters of the river, which leave hope that everything will change for the better.
A couple of days ago, going out to my balcony, I saw the silhouette of a huge bird over the horizon.
I rushed for the camera, but when I returned, I saw that the silhouette of the bird had dissolved, and not in its place was a huge flock of black rooks.
The Rooks were clearly worried about something and circled in a chaotic dance.
They flew over the city dump, which I see on the horizon, outside the city.
Sometimes, this dump burns and clouds of smoke, as from the mouth of a volcano, rise into the sky.
People have not learned to control the processes of methane formation and prevent its ignition.
They, also, have not learned how to completely dispose of garbage and take it out on time, sometimes the containers that stand in front of our house overflow and the garbage dumps out.
This photograph became the basis of the picture.
At such moments, I want to ask those who are eager to explore other, harsh planets about what they want to find there? Something harsher than the reality of our planet?
Does Mars need those who have not learned to heal their own planet?
What is not on Mars, with a hundred percent probability, is ... landfills, but someone wants them to appear.
For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.