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RAMÓN RIVAS

RAMÓN RIVAS

“In my works, poems, and painting, I deal with the future of our vulnerable, warming planet and its social relations. I paint a charming, sad lion, gazelle, or hedgehog, which appears out of chaos but looking carefully, the object is caged and trod upon by my shoe or a car tire.”

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It is unbelievable that a third world war is threatening us in the third millennium. Millions of immigrants are seeking a safe place.

I referred to Picasso’s Guernica and a bleeding dove to remind us of past horrors.

A dead naked, bruised woman, head covered with a fig life, fork, and knife beside her, murdered by her husband or one of her brothers. I tilt the paper, and streams of dilute paint cage the objects. Maybe we are caged too. I convey my feelings also in short poems, Civilization

Ignoring the elegies of earth. Ignoring the elegies of earth. Suicide

In the excavations of the Anthropocene, the human epoch, under piles of concrete and asphalt in a radiated layer of soil were exposed: Ruins of skyscrapers, missiles, metal and glass boxes, plastic scraps, countless fossils, and tombstones engraved with signals - the toil of intelligent creatures.

Did they cut down forests? Did they Pollute the earth and the rivers? Did they not spare their kind?

There is no way of knowing. In an eye blink of the planet, all life on its surface was gone. Archeologists named it- The sixth extinction.

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