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The plastic waste is everywhere in our body, the oceans, the clouds, the surfaces.

Based on this observation, I wondered what the vegetation would look like in the future. What would you see if you cut a tree into slices? One would discover that the stacked plastic became organic over the centuries, mixing with the symbiosis of the tree, becoming one with the plant. A poetic version of this drama.

There is no worse deaf than the one who does not want to hear. The pollution of our seas is a scourge in itself.

The blatant lies of the European institutions, the false promises of the multinationals, full of determination and anger in front of the cameras, these meetings where the heads of state who lies through one’s teeth.
After the announcement effects, when the lights go out, the objectives announced are abandoned or released from their binding obligations.
The contempt for flora and fauna, the illusion that we can fix things in time.

How loud do you have to scream to be heard?

Consumers think that by throwing their waste into the sea it will disappear like magic.

Today, we move forward with blinders.
Quickly forget what we no longer see, or do not want to see.
Yet it is enough to dig the earth, or dive under water, to discover the bad trick that we play to the planet earth, but also to future generations.
Everywhere in the world, from the Pacific Ocean to the North Sea, it is the same thing: a global dumping ground.

This fresco is part of a series of several Hocus Pocus Detritus paintings.
Ocean pollution has a dramatic impact on many marine species.
These creatures live in our increasingly polluted, warmer and more acidic oceans.
Curbing the production of “virgin plastic” emitted by multinationals is certainly part of the solution

The water used to extinguish the Fukushima fire was stored in barrels. Recently, the Japanese government decided to discharge small amounts of radioactive water into the ocean, believing that this would have no consequences. The same claim is made at Mol-Dessel in Belgium. A strange logic accepted by all.

To denounce this heresy, I imagined a radioactivity present to the fish bones. To do so I use phosphorescent recycled plastic.

By day the passerby would discover a fish in 3D that would seem perfectly normal. At night, the magic of phosphorescent plastic would shine to offer another point of view to the bystander: recalling the damage inflicted by man on aquatic fauna.

Glowing shower. The water used to extinguish the fire in Fukushima was stored in barrels. Today Japanese government release small amounts of radioactive water into the ocean, confident that this would have no consequences. The same explanation is put forward in Mol-Dessel in Belgium.A special logic that is accepted by everyone.

To expose this heresy, I used the cycle of water evaporation, which formed a cloud and then turned into rain.
Weather of the day: north-east wind with heavy radioactive rain over the whole of Belgium.

Against the idealized and seductive representations of women in Art Nouveau at the turn of the 20th century, the artist offers the vision of an ancient mythological divinity, represented in its duality. On the one hand, its physical and aesthetic form evokes softness with its elegant curves and its voluminous serpentine hair decorated with shells, highlighting an underwater universe. On the other hand, this representation embodies the strength of the character as an environmental whistleblower, calling for awareness of the risks linked to ocean acidification and its repercussions on marine biodiversity. “pHenomeen” draws its inspiration from characteristic motifs of the Belgian painter and poster artist Privat Livemont. In this composition, living red shells adorn the hair of the goddess. They contrast with the white, dead shells, which evoke the ravages of ocean acidification. There are numerous jellyfish that surround the goddess and underline the urgency of the situation. Algae extends throughout the composition, in accordance with Livemont’s ornamental elements. The pure, white face of the goddess gives a mystical aura to the model, while her voluptuous, slightly gray hair floats randomly in this new kind of sgraffito.

“pHenomeen” is a contraction of “phenomène” in French and “fenomeen” in Dutch. The first two letters evoke pH, an acronym for hydrogen potential measuring the acidity or basicity of a liquid. This name warns of the acidification of the oceans which alters the shells and skeletons of marine species, favoring the proliferation of toxic algae and jellyfish, resilient in the face of increasing levels of marine carbon dioxide.