Desertification
Meine Illustration zeigt eine kreisförmig geplante Stadt wo sie keiner erwarten würde - mitten in der Wüste. Um die Stadt herum sind Felder mit künstlichen Bewässerungsanlagen zu erkennen. Auf den ersten Blick erwecken sie den Eindruck einer Oase. Auf den zweiten Blick jedoch erkennt man eine fortschreitende Desertifikation die durch das Abpumpen von Grundwasser für die Bewässerungsanlagen entsteht. Trotzdem zeigt die Illustration auch die Schönheit der durch Menschenhand erschaffenen geometrischen Felder und die geplante Stadt verspricht eine "malerische Nachbarschaft im Grünen" zu sein.
My illustration shows a circular planned city in a place where no one would have it expected: in the desert. Located around the city are
some irrigation fields. At first glance it looks like an oasis in the middle of the desert. But on second glance, the advancing desertification can be seen, caused by removing huge amounts of groundwater for irrigation fields. Often the groundwater reservoirs do not recover from the massive exploitation. Nevertheless, we see the beauty of geometric irrigation fields that have been created by human hands, and the planned city promises to be a "quaint residential neighborhood in the green".
My illustration shows a circular planned city in a place where no one would have it expected: in the desert. Located around the city are
some irrigation fields. At first glance it looks like an oasis in the middle of the desert. But on second glance, the advancing desertification can be seen, caused by removing huge amounts of groundwater for irrigation fields. Often the groundwater reservoirs do not recover from the massive exploitation. Nevertheless, we see the beauty of geometric irrigation fields that have been created by human hands, and the planned city promises to be a "quaint residential neighborhood in the green".
© European Space Imaging / DigitalGlobe / J. Prieß
