Extinción
by Santiago Armengod
One color relief block print
14” x 25”
This is an image part of a small series of prints, that attempt to take on the subject of climate change, the destruction of ecosystems, plants, animals, and our collaboration as a species to this devastation.
On the left side of the image there is a live crow, and on the right side there a crow skull, and they represent duality and our paradoxical situation as a dominant species in which along with all of the species that become extinct day in and day out we dig our own grave.
Curiously this indoctrinated society feels exempt from the permanent disappearance despite the alarming signs in the path we have set ourselves to walk on. It feels exempt from its contribution to the earth and the environment, denying the most basic life process’ such as aging, death, and an irrational cult for youth. It’s time for us to look at the way the world is intertwined, that without death there’s no life, and that without natural resource extraction there is no capitalism.
