DeforestAction - Burning Sculpture

DeforestAction is a project starts in 2015, i highlights one of the environmental and social problems, experienced first, in Indonesia, the illegal deforestation to promote the cultivation of palm oil. We are in an blindly age that destroys and devours ignoring human rights and environmental issues for economic purposes. I want to revive the catastrophe of Deforestation showing the rawest face, such as: the biggest illegal fire in the world, illegal deforestation of thousands of hectares of rainforest, the destruction of an ecosystem, thousands of animals wounded fleeing and destined to die, tribes forced to leave their land. This painting came from a picture that i made years ago in Aceh,Sumatra island, Indonesia. The relation is between the jungle burning out and the new environmental space for the palm oil trees. I create the wall sculpture using plaster mixed with cement, tempera, pigments, gold powder, silver powder, exhausted oil, gesso, cement and lots of other materials mixed together, then i leave it outside under the rain, the sun, the cold, until the material mixed as i like. It tokes more then 4 months to be ready. Then i cover part of the painting with wood and i burned the all painting! Thats create the final effect of a burning jungle. I tied a wool threads to highlight and outline the territory already worked by man.