What a headline will read 75 years from now. Purchased by a Norwegian Air developer whose company had somehow been able to contain and develop a brand name air and charge per cubic meter.
“I had seen old images and holograms and recently, on my trip to World State of Amexicanada, been able to row through a lake of water lilies at Disneyland’s HoloWorld®. But this piece of lilies by Migdad moved me. I had to have it.”
Almigdad Aldikhaiiry (Migdad), refugee from Darfur, Sudan (a not so ‘happy place on earth’ starting in 2008) painted oil on canvas the lily flower that had not been tagged to go extinct any time soon. In a banal chain of events, the Washington State’s ‘Spotted Owl’, that had finally gone extinct in 2038, had quietly kept the Aquatic Beetle population down. With this owl gone and the toxicity of fresh water on a steady rise, water lilies vanquished. Similar world-wide events caused the demise of the lily within 20 years.
Migdad had chosen Los Angeles to pursue his dream of making a living as an artist. His large statement pieces expressed his concern on global warming, air pollution, and environmental mining. He wanted to create an impact on the art scene and on humanity. “The Lilies” was a big painting of big lilies and of bigger things that come from a small amount of water and small resources. Fine art was a big dream of a young Sudanese man who grew up in a close nomadic family. The nomadic lifestyle was necessary in order to follow the water and resources a fertile land could provide with it.
A dream of being an artist to create art to hang on walls was not pragmatic. Yet, an artist is born to make art no matter.