Deborah Oropallo Hackensack NJ | Novato, CA GREAT GRETA Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born Jan 3, 2003 in Sweden. She is the
founder of FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE and EXTINCTION REBELLION.
This is a portrait of a young girl with Autistic Spectrum Disorder portrayed in her yellow
rain-coat. She has gained international recognition for promoting the view that
humanity is facing an existential crisis arising from climate change. She is not afraid to publicly criticize world leaders about their failure to act. She cut school and inspired
20,000 other students in 270 cities to do the same to stand up for the environment.
My layered portrait of Greta, is made from approximately thirty transparent portraits
mirroring the repetition of her standing outside the Riksdag every day for three weeks
during school holding her sign SKILSTREIK for KLIMATET. (School strike for climate). You can see in her eyes that are peaking out of her raincoat, she is fierce, persistent,
passionate, and deadly serious. A child who bluntly delivers the truth to grownups. Her protest began after heat waves and wildfires during Sweden's hottest summer in at least 262 years. Greta has declared that it is time for civil disobedience, and it is time to
rebel. In her words: “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are
collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called her a brat. Even more horrifying, our POTUS mocked her after she was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine “Greta must
work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old-fashioned movie with
a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!"
Who is the world leader here?