“The World Appears to Be on Fire”

This was one of the first paintings I created after resuming painting in 2015. During that period, I focused on vast landscapes, often depicting small figures walking through the immense world, usually on their way toward a distant destination—in this case, a place with white houses.

I found this painting intriguing primarily because of its striking red tones. In the foreground, I sensed figures looking across the plain with a quiet, watchful demeanor. Interestingly, some viewers remarked that they interpreted the dark shapes in the foreground not as people, but as trees—perhaps charred and blackened by fire.

At the time, this did not strike me as particularly significant. Yet, ten years later, I began to wonder if this painting too might be a message from the E-cloud—a warning about the consequences of climate change. The world in the painting seems to be on fire, and today we are confronted with a dramatic rise in devastating fires across the globe.