A new series of five works that each represents the ‘Big 5’ (Nature Index) from the West to the East. A non-scentific study, perhaps banal divination of what the future holds on Mother Earth. These gloomy works illustrate (from birds-eye view perspecitve) a fictive bombardement of the major cities torn apart into a grimy dumping ground. The boomerang effect, a full-scale return of our past material possessions. Abandoned issues.
[ CAPITOL ]
The big greedy apple
Bad bad apple
Soon to be sour, wrinkled
Apple
The wasteland returns
Call of duties
Intervention, warzone
Trashing trash
Bombing with trash
Piling up, time is up
Revenge time
Third world country payback time
Old clothes torn to pieces, spray paint, acrylics, oil paint, varnish, wallpaper paste and fabric hardener on canvas
100 x 150 cm
Paul Ø. McNulty, 2022
[ THE BIG SMOKE ]
Half-smoked
These days
Stone broke, this lot are a joke
Please evoke
Swirl it, stir it up
A new cover-up
Undercover, six-feet under
Dead and buried
Give a leg up, please
Hush-hush
Old clothes torn to pieces, spray paint, acrylics, oil paint, varnish, wallpaper paste and fabric hardener on canvas
100 x 150 cm
Paul Ø. McNulty, 2022
[ DIE HAUPSTADT-BEIPING ]
The cold land in between
Smoke screen
Nowhere to be seen
The landscape, scaped
The man erased
Ate up human waste
The chaos of the Great
Grand
No man’s land
Old clothes torn to pieces, spray paint, acrylics, oil paint, varnish, wallpaper paste and fabric hardener on canvas
200 x 150 cm (2x 100 x 150 cm)
Paul Ø. McNulty, 2022
[ SHUTO ]
No udo
Doo-doo
Shooby-de-doo
Who?
The cuckoo
Pseudo
Ado
Due to
You too
Old clothes torn to pieces, spray paint, acrylics, oil paint, varnish, wallpaper paste and fabric hardener on canvas
100 x 150 cm
Paul Ø. McNulty, 2022