Globalisation must be regulated to generate a win-win situation for all. Otherwise we will loose our cultural identities and values in the form of a life. I captured this vision with irony in the form of a make-believe world with the intention of sounding a wake-up call.

I am concerned about the erosion of cultural identities and the loss of community values as a direct impact of globalisation, steered and characterised by the dominance of the Western powers and their technological sophistication. Global competition over resources and power creates conflict and tension leading to wars that leave in their wake winners and loosers, thus paving the way for another round of conflicts.
In my work I use symbolic form and texture to ironically illustrate my “Fossils of a Savage Garden” (of globalisation): the men with the golden masks symbolise egoism, materialism, greed and ignorance. Ashamed of their behaviour, these men are hiding their faces behind the masks. The lady in the centre is the mother figure, signifying the current generation of those taking responsibility for endangering the future. She sings her baby a lullaby, telling it not to worry. But there are also white ants depicted, symbolising the manifold impacts that globalisation will have on the sleeping baby’s future. Butterflies on the warm, vibrant canvas and the wavy, spiral texture of the gold signify the beauty of our culture and natural resources which are threatened by extinction if the baby, symbolises the next generation, fails to wake up and take the matters into its hands.