SUBMISSION: The Killing Oil Fields of Florida by Yuri Slobodenyuk

This collage is dedicated to the largest environmental disaster in human history. Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in Mexican Gulf in 2010. My fellow countryman Kazimir Malevich once said : "Comrades, arise, free yourselves from the tyranny of objects!". In this sense I, like him, consider myself as a true abstract expressionist and also a revolutionary. My battle cry is : "Stop copying the world, create a new one!" This is not a far cry from what Picasso once proclaimed: "In art, we express what nature is not" and I am, of course, a strong believer in the unlimited positive power of vibrant colors. Whoever is afraid of bright colors is afraid of life, which I'm not. In the art of collage I represent a completely different point of view. My slightly distorted collages are pretty close to reality and full of hidden ironic and sometimes tragic messages.