Title: Global Warning

Materials: Wood, gas hose, gas nozzle, 50 individually cast wax hands.

Size: 4' x 8'

Made in: 2006

Note: The 50 individually casted hands using ASL (American Sign Language) spell out: "The promise of the American dream is unsustainable madness." [It works out to 50 letters exactly.]

Arundhati Roy, in her essay entitled “Come September” stated that “Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

According to Adbusters Kalle Lasn, we are headed for a global, economic collapse. Our present lifestyle is simply not sustainable. The planet is not an infinite resource, nor is it an infinite garbage can. Things will only change for the better when there is a global mind shift – where people will suddenly say, “I don’t want a fancy car. I don’t want another Big Mac. I don’t want any Diesel Jeans. They will instead say, I want to have a simple fulfilling life.”