Not exact matches
By comparing individuals» subjective interpretations and feelings (through interviews) with large scale data (in reports) and laws (outlined by
human rights and Thai national laws), the research utilizes the triangulation approach to come up with a study that attempts to respect both the micro (individual) and macro (context) and therefore
paint the
human faces of displaced persons affected by factors beyond their control (
conflict in Myanmar and Thai politics and law).
Influenced by Sontag's 1965 essay «The Imagination of Disaster», Golden explores cultural anxieties in relation to visual culture; by
painting the «unthinkable» — be it
conflict, apocalypse or a long lost time - period — the artist exposes universal concerns of the
human psyche.»
Last but not least is self - taught artist David Whittaker, whose
paintings are based around an interpretation of the
human head and its metaphysical core: ambiguous and non-specific, they represent the universal alongside the personal and act as mirrors of our inner
conflicts.
His photorealist flower
paintings of the late 2000s spoke of
humans» relationship with nature, while his tapestries of contemporary
conflicts, a series that he began in 2011, explore violence, and how
conflict is portrayed in the media.
It
paints a bleak picture of a hotter, more unstable future in which the combination of climate change and population growth combine to overwhelm the capacity of natural and
human systems, resulting in increased poverty,
conflict, and species extinction.