Drought Season

This piece was made in reaction to the practice of 'buying the water table.' Water bottling companies, especially the Nestlé corporation, buy land and then manipulate local ordinances and laws in order to argue that they own the water in that land underneath it.  Then they deplete the local water table and sell that bottled water all over the world, and oftentimes back to the citizens of the towns where the came from in the first place.  

In this piece the person in the business suit squeezing the hose represents the large corporations who are literally cutting off the water supply.  The results of this action is shown in the left side of the tomato plant, which represents firstly, the difficulty farmers face irrigating their crops when the water has been nearly deplete, and secondly, the way in which a lack of water results in a barren environment.  This barren environment is both literal and figurative, while plants will die, so too will the spirits of the people who have their wells run dry by a huge company. 

The right half of the composition is of a healthy plant, (although its fruit is smaller than average, as it takes a lot of water to produce a tomato fruit) which shows what the whole plant would look like if it had enough water to survive.  This healthy side represents the way that life thrived before the water was 'stolen.' Moreover, it provides a promise of what the future could hold if the man in the suit (who represents big business) were to be stopped.