This poster was designed as a competition entry for “The Future We Want - Drop By Drop” poster-competition which was part of an EU-funded international project themed around the shortage of freshwater our planet is facing.

I have researched satellite photographs of the shrinking of the Aral Sea, which has virtually completely dried out, solely due to human activity. I re-drew them and presented them as MRI-scans, because I wanted to raise the alarm. People feel more worried about their human, physical health than the long-term health of our planet, even if the two are connected, and I wanted to show this link. I titled the work “bad news” because it is what a doctor would say if these were real scans of a vital organ.

It is commonplace that we call our forests “the lungs of our planet” which is where my idea came from. I think our lakes and rivers are also vital organs of the environment and I wanted to play with this imagery.