Mo Enright Contemporary Art

Legacy (Triptych)

These panels are part of my latest work and endeavour to make a statement about the/my carbon footprint. They depict my concern about the indiscriminate felling of trees, the destruction of the rain forests and the ultimate damage caused to the environment worldwide. We need paper, we need books, but do we need so much and so many? Millions of books are printed every year and hundreds of thousands are sold however, many, many thousands remain unsold and are returned to the publishers for pulping. A large percentage of books sold will never be read. Of course paper is just a minuscule part of the problem, but a part nevertheless. The trees, the forests, are our life support, what are we doing abusing them in this way?

LEGACY SERIES