New Surrealism: Peak Oil

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Click on this link to buy or place a best offer on the original painting! Hello Sorsdahl art fans, This painting is a massive 3ftx3ft surrealism and is available on Ebay starting at $749.43. Prints of this work will be available soon on art.com Ok...I havent painted a more complex surrealism for a long time. Its probably because they take a long time to do. For this work I have been reading the news over the past two years and listening to concepts of "peak oil or hubbards peak". Basically the world is getting to the point where we consume more oil then we can find. For a basic explanation of why I painted what I painted here it goes. The United states consumes about 25% of the worlds yearly oil...so I figured that I would base the work on the US. Dont get me wrong I love the US and all that its achieved and I know its not the only country that uses oil...but America has prospered the most from the use of oil and its ability to multiply its wealth...by doing work and building things. I wanted to incorporate a "hubbards peak curve" into the work and the hand in the air is to symbolize that...where the peak is where trhings start to decline and get harder. We rely so much on our vehicles to get us to work and "run our economy"...so with this painting I wanted monolithic tires set in a desert landscape....basically the tires fallen off a vehicle bleaching in the desert sun. The arm in the air is also symbolic of the drive shaft of a vehicle...how we are now going to have to use manpower to do things if we run out of oil. Its also to symbolize the bloodshed thats going on in Nigeria over oil. So we get a blood stained red and white striped flag...because we need to secure supplies of oil abroad to satisfy our needs. Democracy gets influenced by the need for the black oil. The scene is almost like what you would get looking under a 4x4 and taking a picture...the vehicle is leaking oil and the puddle you see is all that is left. As oil becomes scarce...what was once waste becomes an important commodity. So I wanted to show the people of the future standing in long lines gathering oil inneffieciently using a "silver spoon" from the past and filling jugs that they now have to carry on thier heads as they cant drive vehicles anymore. What was once taken for granted will be in the bleak future done by hand. Our whole world society has been built from the use of cheap oil and those days may be soon coming to an end. . Prints of this work will be available soon on art.com Click here to bid on the work