The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with water, and they were poured upon the earth: and a third part of the earth was burnt up and a third part of the earth was burnt up and a third part of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up” Book of St John, The New Testament. Durer created a woodcut “The Seven Trumpets are given to the Angels” This panel is re created in its’ entirety, greatly enlarged and combined with multiple imagery.
Durer’s woodcut imagery has been cut through a cityscape of Panama City, photographs of the wreckage of the Bahamas after it was hit by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Lichtenstein’s famous “Wham” painting. The angels blowing the trumpets are the two conquistadors Pedro de Alvarado and Francisco Pizarro.
Underneath the surface imagery lie enlarged photographs of cracking ice flows in the antarctic and a forest fire.
