Adriana Seserko | Dry Spell | SOLD
Dryspell | 2019
Adriana Seserko
76.5 x 58 cm
Acrylic and ink on paper
Endless days of rainless skies and unrelenting heat shaped the summer of 2018 /19. Australia experienced its hottest summer on record, where thirty above degree days were punctuated only too regularly by above forty degree heat waves. The natural environment during this period suffered immensely. Australia observed the mass wipeout of native fish in the Darling River, flying foxes falling lifeless from trees, states devastated by raging fire, and a further decline in the health of the Great Barrier Reef. The Australian bush roasted beneath the unforgiving glare of the sun, plants withered, and water holes, creeks, and parts of rivers dried up. Life outside of air-conditioned buildings was akin to hell.
Intrepid or perhaps just plain stupid, I ventured outdoors during a January heat wave, equipped with my camera. The temperature exceeded 40 degrees and Canberra baked to a crisp. I spotted a group of blue wrens, grasping and exhausted. They perched in amongst the ivy, little beaks ajar and chests heaving. Here I was, incommoded by the repressive heat yet able to escape it by simply walking inside an air-conditioned house. Then there were the little wrens, suffering and unable to flee the extreme conditions. Rather poignant when considering climate change is a direct result of human activity, and yet, it is so typical. Humanity fiddles while the natural world burns.
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Adriana Seserko
Born: 1990
Adriana has been painting most of her life. Her attention to the finer detail gives her the ability to create beautifully rendered masterpieces.
Her works often engage the viewer with a moral value, she believes strongly in the preservation of our planet and painting provides her with an instrument in which her views can be expressed to the greater community
