"The Last Trump / Eco-Calyptic", 2016.

"The Last Trump / Eco-Calyptic"

“The Last Trump” is a mythical instrument believed in many religious traditions to herald the end of the world. It is often portrayed as being blown by a male angel.

In this work, the image of the male angel is reimagined within the context of the consumerist, exploitative, and patriarchal capitalist system—a system that treats the Earth and its resources as if they are infinitely disposable.

This photograph was taken near Hasankeyf, an ancient settlement on the banks of the Tigris River in Northern Mesopotamia. Hasankeyf, a site with nearly 12,000 years of continuous human habitation, is now being submerged under the waters of a hydroelectric dam—constructed to serve for just 50 years of "economic" utility.

At the center of the piece, a plastic water bottle—a modern icon of disposability—is transformed into The Last Trump. Once again, it is a male angel (!) who delivers the trumpet blast, this time not of divine judgment, but of ecological collapse and irreversible pollution.

There is yet another layer of irony in the word Trump.I believe further elaboration is unnecessary.