Acrylic on canvas

150 x 110 cm.

PRICE: $1.200

The Starfish Beach is in the north of Phú Quốc, a Vietnamese island located in the Thailand Gulf, in front of the Cambodian coast. And there it is, the Starfish Beach, a paradise that people seem to be stubbornly determined to destroy. I wanted to capture forever the amazing view of the hundreds of starfishes I saw when I dived there the first time back in 2019. There were hundreds of them, massive starfishes in a vivid orange with dark bluish and brown bumps. I tried to capture the essence of the water, in a mix of blue and turquoise that changed constantly and the golden sand.

As an artist I feel in the need of using my art to create conscience about the environment, about the small things we can do or stop doing in order to maintain the balance between human and nature. And in this case, something so apparently harmless as grabbing the starfish can lead to its dead only for someone to have the perfect picture of it.

This paint reminds us not only the paradise we are to protect, but also the one we could loose forever if we keep acting without thinking further ahead of our own interests.