Can Art Heal Bad Politics?

Fabrice Monteiro, photographic artist, "travelled to the most polluted places in Africa and created terrifying characters who roamed their midst dressed in eerie debris. They are spirits, he says, on a mission to make humans change their ways".

Our Planet is under attack, consciously or otherwise, by how we approach business and how we approach manufacturing. Our social contracts are also under attack through these avenues - we do not seem to know as a species, what it is that will sustain us and what it might mean if we keep ignoring the signals. Monteiro's work is an opportunity to 'talk' through images, feelings and to our deep subconscious. It might be Art that is the final frontier for saving humanity, when words themselves - as we use them - fail us.

The Guardian wrote a brief article, sharing some of his images.

Greenpeace also use imagery as a way to reach more people - such as what they did most recently at G-20 Summit in Germany. Statistics are essential but our will to make changes, protect and change direction - as a people - comes from the arising emotion of the subconscious. Art does that. This image below, from Baltimore Sun Article, shows Trump defacating Oil on the Earth. It's strong. It's offensive. And it's a telling perspective.