A million years lost in a moment - Trollhättan, Västra Götalands Län, Sweden
N 58° 17.099 E 012° 17.348
33V E 341064 N 6463638
Artist Vegan Flava created with his work "A million years lost in a moment" a house size mural in Magasinsgatan to raise awareness to global warming.
Waymark Code: WM18RT7
Location: Västra Götaland, Sweden
Date Posted: 09/19/2023
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In spring 2016 the city of Trollhättan created a street art festival for the 100th anniversary of the city. Vegan Flava, who was born in Trollhättan, created a 12m high mural to "raise awareness about the urgency for everyone to act upon global warming".
The mural is showing the upper part of a skeleton consisting of the shoulders, clavicles and skull, which is broken in the upper part. The clavicles and the spine were replaced by a hollow tree trunks and there are some branches growing out of the skull. You can also see small leaves falling down. The used colors for the skeleton are mainly in black, white and gray shades, the tree trunks are in a dark brown, the material used was spray paint.
According to the artist the skeleton is all that remains when humans are stripped of their identity, the tree parts in the skeleton should point out that humanity depends on nature and that humanity destroying it by hollowing it out with the climate change.
References:
- Street Art in Trollhättan, web page from the tourism agengy
- Short article on the mural on StreetArtNews.net
- Website of the artist