It's been quite a while since I posted one of the canvases from my series "Evil Greens: When Plants Get Mad...".So, I'm back with Number 5 in the series. (All paintings in this series are the same size, 2 foot wide by 3 foot high)
In this one, I move away from plant life that is truly "green" and focus on a food plant, namely, wheat.
For those of you who haven't viewed the first four paintings in the series, one of the premises - in a world where some people assume there's a virtue in eating a non-animal product diet - is that plant life is compliant with this.
My view is: Plants are no less alive than animals and, in some cases, the whole plant is finished off to feed the hungry. (Interesting side note: All of human agriculture, for the last 10,000 years, has been based nearly 100% on annuals, not perennials. This is where the hideous costs of agriculture originate. There's a move afoot to develop perennial forms of grain and oilseed crops, to reduce the costs.)I'm sure harvesting methods and equipment have improved in recent years, but my references to agriculture come from my childhood, when I lived far nearer to farmer's fields than I do today, so I'm showing an old fashioned combine-harvester in the background. It may not apply now but, there was a time, if the wheat was wet, it couldn't be harvested. Then again, it may still be true...
In this panel, the wheat is mad - and fighting back! It is making itself wet, in an act of defiance. The farmer is horrified.
The eagle-eyed among you will also notice other details... such as the little copses of trees on the horizon or the tails of little furry creatures scurrying out of the way. Plus, of course, the droplets of water.
Copyright Deborah C. Sawyer
