Q: What do you think are the concerns about the environment and landscape in his work? Do you see the influences of Magritte and Escher in his work? Name examples.
The first thing I see when I look at these are a very strong reference to M.C. Escher, with the distorted perspectives and mix-matched things. I especially see this in the image of the roads with the cars on it going upside up and upside down. I had to look up who Magritte was, but I also found reference there in the image with the fish with the island on its back.
I see concern for the environment in this in the way that in all of the pictures, it seems that humans are the ones doing something to the land. In the image with the house that was cut in half by scissors cutting up the land, you realize that the woman in the house has a face on that looks like she's saying "Hey, where did my scissors go?" And in the image of the woman carrying the cloth that is becoming a road across a field, she is actively spreading infrastructure across nature, leaving humans mark on the land.
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