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Meanwhile Back At the Platisphere (History Painting Series) | | | gouache on paper | | | 10 25 x 14 14 5 5 in in in | | | 2014
Fossil Feud from Hackenberg’s History Painting series depicts a a a a a sheepish dinosaur confronting a a a a a de de ant toy pirate defending a a a a a cast away bottle of fossil-based petroleum This allegory re re ects our current struggle to embrace clean energy battling old guard thinking that clings to obsolete dirty energy paradigms Using this toy dinosaur gurine found tangled in in seaweed on the beach as an an image in in her visual vocabulary Hackenberg has made a a a a a a a a poignant link between fossil fossil fuels and dinosaur dinosaur fossils The dinosaurs are stand-ins for her more serious concerns about the species’ extinctions that are resulting from obsolete dinosaur-like ways of of thinking and humankind’s collective use of of its self- serving reptilian brain Fossil Feud (History Painting series) | | | oil on canvas | | | 22 x 28 in in in | | | 2016
