The increasingly frequent flooding in the Aude region, where I lived at the time, gave new urgency to my sense of shame and despair at being a member of the generation that has knowingly continued to destroy the ecosystem that sustains us.

It was after the January 2020 flood that I began this painting, so dark in both senses. The painting continued during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Please note that any similarity of the figures represented with real or fictional characters may be accidental.