These artificial islands were born from the beautiful misshapen scrapings from my paint palette, which I saw as little aerial images of land mass. They conjured the artificial islands ‘utopias’ that do exist (and continue to be constructed) as in Dubai and Qatar.

These tiny vignettes of “proposed island utopias” for future inhabitation offer an escape from industrial waste, rising sea levels, and environmental ruin forthcoming. Not unlike the once touted Save a Whale program of the 1980s, where we all received an “authentic” photo of our whale’s tail, one may acquire a painting of an imaginary little slice of heaven and its accompanying muse to comfort the beleaguered soul.