Ricardo Levins Morales, American, born 1967
Environmental Justice, 2014
Levins Morales invokes The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831), riddled with oil drums and other trash in his depiction of the burdens facing marginalized communities in the U.S., specifically evoking sea level rise and water pollution as two dominating forms of environmental injustice. As water pollution remains a paramount concern across Virginia be it to marginalized communities due to the construction of natural gas pipelines, historical mercury release, or damage to the Chesapeake bay due to agricultural runoff, this image is significant amongst environmental justice and climate justice- based activist or interest groups in Virginia. Label by Frank Kennedy