We stand at the vortex of nature - in which our attempts to ameliorate climatic conditions and deliver the world from poverty and hunger is resulting in the deterioration of the very conditions we seek to control. This installation / exhibition considers this vortex through an installation in the abandoned Hotel De Ville (Town hall) of Ancien Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire. Ancien Bassam was the first capital of colonial French West Africa, and was established in 1893. Today Ancian Bassam is know for its overgrown buildings in which fig trees and tropical creepers are gaining assendency of the buildings - a rare victory for nature over urban development. The paintings installed at Ancien Bassam are about this vortex - and an attempt to capture the swirling history of man versus nature - what goes around many come around differently this time...
