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  ArtistJosé A. Buxadó
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  Typeimage
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  Dimensions80 x 99.3 cm

Although current time of pandemic and social turbulence was a major motivation to paint “Nostradamus II, XCV”, this oil on canvas could be understood at...

Although current time of pandemic and social turbulence was a major motivation to paint “Nostradamus II, XCV”, this oil on canvas could be understood at several parallel levels. First, I felt that there was a hope when I saw solutions created where I work. Later, I saw many life being saved by these solutions. Then, I felt that I was in the right place to do more, and I started to paint. During planning of this painting, I understood that there was to much more to represent, because current global problems are larger than I had imagined. Then, I decided using a few elements in a simple composition to highlight urgency for a radical change of the human behavior at global scale. Homo sapiens is a weak specie, living in a wet stone at a prohibitive speed around a huge fire. Therefore, we are irrelevant for nature, and we could be replaced by any other specie using a stone, a virus, water, fire or any creative device. This time, we have received a kind warning from nature, but the next