This is my entry into the "Bring out the Trash" contest, hosted/sponsored by painters [link]

As the theme of the contest is political, I had to relate the painting(s) to the issue of "Renewable/Reusable/Recyclable." The way I approached this was to juxtapose the two different canvases, where the green one symbolizes the natural world, and the black one symbolizes the city, or urban world. The clashing between these two worlds, more specifically the domination of the urban world, is a critical issue in the whole environment/trash-related political discussion. People congregate in cities, building, polluting, and in effect covering up the natural world with man-made structures and pollutants. I represented this in the painting by including traces of the yellow/blue/green colours, which represent the natural world, in the black canvas; it's hard to recognize the natural beauty behind the buildings, smog, etc. of the cities. The intricate and complex texturing of the black canvas contrasts to the simple, flowing texture of the green one; this symbolizes the added density of people in cities, the increased number of lives that must run parallel yet often separately from each other.

diptych.
acrylics on canvas, each approx. 24x15 cm
completed 17.04.2008

Alternate version of this, with framing & a title added in Gimp (this was not allowed for the contest): [link]

I personally think that these 2 canvases should be enjoyed separately rather than as a diptych, but thought it was fitting for this theme. *edit: i disagree!