Artwork: mural by Millo, Beyond the Sea, Monopoli, Italy, 2020
Wonderful new mural from Millo (@millo) Beyond the Sea in Monopoli (Italy) for @_phest_ festival.
The mural is about shelter, climate change, and the the tropicalization of the Mediterranean sea. It’s an important reminder that even while the world is focused on the pandemic, the climate change crisis is still a priority.
Millo’s description of the project : “It's typical of marine environments to change in relation to climatic fluctuations, but the combination of this change with other ecological stressors such as pollution, eutrophication, anoxia, fishing pressure, the acidification of the oceans let us think that the new species arriving in the seas are not the main problem but that there won't be any species left at all in the future if we continue to ignore how strong is our impact on the ecosystem.
The tropicalization of the Mediterranean should not be regarded as something apocalyptic or irreversible we can make a huge difference by acting consciously towards our environment.”