“Triumph of Consumerism” (2022)—digital collage by AleXander Hirka, with Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1562)

Triumph of Consumerism

Harshing The Holiday Mellow (A Whimsical Environmental Diatribe)

In the panoramic pandemonium of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting —“The Triumph of Death” (1562)—the earth is on fire, a scorched landscape. Armies of skeletons are laying waste to everything and everyone.
A few leafless trees, no other vegetation. Ships sink into the ocean.
In the right bottom corner, as if…