Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This painting titled 'Anthropocene' was a Finalist in the 2020 Lake Art Prize at the Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie.

This still life painting is about the marine effects of anthropogenic climate change such as rising sea levels and water pollution. The stack of books, ranging from sci-fi to non-fiction to children's book to magazine, present a cautionary tale about man-made climate change. The plastic rubber ducks allude to the story of the Friendly Floatees wherein 29,000 plastic toys were washed into the Pacific Ocean in 1992. The bromeliad in a jar of water with plastic soy fish symbolises how the waterscape is changing as around 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in the world's ocean each year.