TITLE : As Dead as Dodo
MEDIA : Acrylic on canvas
SIZE : 91.44 x 76.2 cm
YEAR : 2024

People used to go to the photo studio to take pictures, back when most households could not afford to buy cameras on their own. The studio had a wide variety of objects to display, including land phones, motorbikes, arms, TVs, and more, which subject of the photo commonly used those as element(s) of the photo they liked during their photo shoots. By humanizing a non-human through personification, I love to depict human traits in them, keeping the identity of those beautiful creatures unblemished. When Mauritius was colonized by the Dutch in 1638, dodos were hunted for food. They were easy to catch and new competitors were brought onto the island, including pigs, cats and rats. 

The dodo became extinct less than 80 years later because of deforestation, hunting, and the destruction of their nests by animals brought to the island by the Dutch. History is going to be repeated in the same way and in the same order for a specific nation by the Politicos.