My monochromatic mark-making practice explores the intersection of ecology and activism, rooted in the pictorial traditions of romantic landscapes and landscape painting. The contemporary vanitases I create weave a story of vastness and intimacy, creation and destruction, power and helplessness. They are designed to allure the viewer with their surface beauty, while also evoking a sense of unease with the stark reality they portray. During our hike on the Tour de Mont Blanc 2019, we were confronted with the extraordinary devastation of a 5-day severe weather event where supercells and bow-echoes flattened large areas of old-growth forests, claiming 10 lives, injuring 90, leaving a trail of destruction from the Alps to the Greek coastline. These fallen timbers at Col Ferret, are a stark symbol of the destructive power of climate change, implicating anthropocentric economic, cultural, and political constructs and our humancentric relationship to nature, and the imaginative and cultural failures at the heart of this super-wicked global climate crisis.