Earth - (latin: Terra) - third, counting from the Sun, and the fifth largest planet in the Solar System. The Earth is inhabited by millions of species, including human. It is the only astronomical object known to harbor life. It was formed about 4.5 billion years ago.
How come we tend to forget what extraordinary miracle it is?
We breathe its air, drink water, eat its crops. We contaminate our only home with harmful substances, destroy ecosystems and disturb the order created for over billion of years. We live on a planet where miracles are so common that they are constantly overlooked. This story is about that.
Pachamama, I love you.
Lava on the rocks
120 x 120
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Only one blue planet
120 x 120
Acrylic and mineral pigments on canvas
Lyrics of the sun
160 x 100
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Song of the oceans
140 x 140
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
Vulcano gold
100 x 120
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Between valleys I see you
120 x 160
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Even a small rock is billion years old
80 x 120
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Desert and ice
(80 x 80) x 2
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
ocher umber siena
are earth natural pigments sourced from the ground
and they were my basic material for this series.
The Earth's atmosphere is warming, faster than it probably ever has. We need immediate and ambitious action to fight with climate change crisis.
10% of the sale of the series supports Youth Climate Strike in Poland. YCS strike for change and hope that humanity can avert the worst climate disasters and build a better future.
Green lungs whisper
100 x 120
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Where u came from
70 x 100
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Made of space dust
100 x 70
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Coconut forest
140 x 140
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
Gardens of stone
100 x 120
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Calm turquoise world
70 x 100
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
Deep down is all sand
100 x 70
Acrylic, mineral pigments and oil pastel on canvas
“My mother is soil and rain,
clay, ash, sand, sun and moonlight.
My mother is a weeping willow—
strong, daring, dripping.
My mother is oceans so salty and wild
she can consume whole cities—
but, mostly, she chooses to be calm turquoise,
washing softly over toes in sand.
She is vast—
some places unnavigated.
She is offering, felt without words, sacred, and restful.
She grows life.
— mother/Mother Earth”
Ashley Asti
