King Tide Tuvalu

Artist Marcia Chaves
King Tide Tuvalu
12" x 24"
Oil
A remote Pacific island country of Tuvalu is sinking fast, so much so that in the next 50 years, most citizens will have relocated to dry ground in Australia. At risk of disappearing under the ocean, the capital city Funafuti was recently inundated by an annual King Tide, and natives' homes and crops destroyed. Here, Mona Lisa, a young native maiden makes her way along a once well traveled pathway to her home through the waist high waters of the Pacific.