Time to travel with painters Mike Davis and Michael Kerbo

Michael, your metaphoric paintings offer topics of disasters and climate change. While it is an existential threat, is there any hope for humanity, at all?

I assume that my sincere answer is that I am trying to be optimistic, but I am afraid that things will get worse before they improve. I used to be more optimistic about the situation. I thought we’ll make more important changes now. But with the passage of every year, it seems that we continue along this path of widespread consumption and increase. And people who benefit from the way things are, they have a little incentive to change. We turn the planet quickly. Disable ecosystems, pushing species to extinction, and filling the world with plastic. The list goes on. It is said that we have pumped enough greenhouse gases in the air at a time now, even if we get to know all emissions, the climate will continue to grow warmer. It should not be such a drop, but I think it has become dangerous. That is why I am very forced to express my fears through a technician.

In the end, humans may be able to disrupt this chaos. I just feel unfortunate. We could have gained ourselves, the planet, and a lot of hardship if we simply made more wisdom decisions years ago. However, the young generation gives me hope today. They seem to realize how clear this. I hope they can prevent our sex from the abyss.

Bring dinosaurs! It is difficult not to notice the prevailing dinosaur in the latest set of work. In addition to the lack of close fluctuations, these enormous creatures are seen as they escalate through the iconic capitalist symbols, including fuel stations …

Yes, these prehistoric creatures aim to symbolize the violent forces that we launched on Earth. It is basically a visual representation of an abstract concept such as climate change. A century and a half of carbon pumping into the atmosphere had to have some negative consequences. We have effectively liberated these ghosts from the past, and now the dinosaurs destroy the chaos on our world. We have shown this problem on ourselves.

Pterodactyls seems to have found a perfect house at the dilapidated Chevron Station …

Well, this is just taking a sense of humor I believe that the Earth will be fine in the end. Although our environmental impact on the planet, nature will adapt, and life will continue. Whether we are part of this future or not, it is still unclear …

… I have always thought that plastic dinosaurs games were dead artistic creatures alone. Dino games are formed with plastic that comes from oil, which will not be possible without fossil fuel … and dinosaurs! I feel the same feeling with your paintings, and seeing dinosaurs facing fuel stations …

As you know, I did not think about that angle about the plastic dinosaur game. But you are right. Our community is steeped with plastic.

I am particularly attracted to the buried pile plate, stacked and a kind of decomposition constantly, below the surface of the earth. How did they get there?

I think about this painting as an example of the consequences, or the concept of “cause and influence”. These cars, collected together, represent our inheritance in the consumption of fossil fuels. Now, to be clear, I have nothing against cars. I think it is useful. It allows us to move and help our ability to trade. It is only that our current model is not sustainable. So the cars that you see here are included through a world that has been radically changed, a world that turns our addiction to fossil fuels.

The dinos seems to flourish in this particular painting …

Yes, I call the “Reflection of Lucky”. Since our actions have liberated these dinosaurs from the bottom of the earth, they now reach the cavity around the surface, causing all kinds of environmental chaos, such as catastrophic floods and dryness, and turning the planet into a sensor. Of course, the paradox is now the cars that were placed on the ground.

A century and a half of carbon pumping into the atmosphere had to have some negative consequences.