"Mugging The Earth" - Mario Sanchez
Laci Clark
"Mugging The Earth" by Mario Sanchez, is a piece of artwork that depicts how human society's creations of pollution, big business, and a nonchalant attitude towards climate change are the main factors in humanity's limited capacity to show empathy toward the planet. The Earth is shown as a crying woman threatened with a gun created of smog and a darkening city to suggest that, while no harm is yet to come to the woman, the pollution and smoke is creeping into the bright light that seeps from behind her head. Foreboding in nature and ominous in mood, Mario Sanchez continues to illuminate his feelings toward the impact that a modern civilization is putting on the Earth, and draws his audience in by expressing an almost grief-like lament of what is the unavoidable destruction of Earth if those inhabiting it do not change.
I found this visual rhetoric extremely interesting not just in topic, but also in the visuals Sanchez chooses to use in order to make his statement anything less than ordinary, such as the tears being represented as an unending cascade of water while the gun itself is composed of a city-scape and the pollution that surrounds industrialized areas. Moreover, the environment has always been an admiration of mine and I strongly disagree with those that refuse to take climate change seriously, also having a background within the arts, I highly value what artists can create simply from ideas on a canvas, and also those located in novels and articles.
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