Drowned Earth

As the earth comes to rest
the sound of water
life among the roots

When I imagine what the earth will look like in 100 years, the image that comes to mind most emphatically is one of an earth with sharply rising sea levels. The vastly reduced life that remains in the warmed and poisoned oceans will find shelter and food in the flooded mangrove forests and tropical and temperate coastal forests.

Nature will adapt to the new conditions over time, there is no doubt. Nature has always done that since the creation of the earth. Whether humanity, and many other species as we know them today, have been given the time to do the same is very much open to question.

In this collection of new artworks I show you how I see the earth of, say, a few centuries from now. A fusion of the forests and the oceans, with hopefully in the distant future a rich ecosystem that has managed to adapt to the new circumstances.

Will there still be room for humans in that world?
Yes, I think there will. Will there also be room for "civilized" Western man? No, unless they learn to be one with nature again. It will take several generations before that happens. I sincerely wonder whether the generations of Western man who are now living on earth will be able to bring about this transformation. More time is needed for that, I fear....

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Swimming In Tears - While trees cry . Fish drop their tears . Drowning earth - Surrealistic digital art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

Swimming In Tears

While trees cry
fish shed their tears
in endless waves

Digital art

Refuge - Sea turtles . finding refuge . among old-growth - Surrealistic digital art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

Refuge

Sea turtles
finding refuge
among old-growth

Digital art

Bloom - Pulsating blue float gently between branches forest in bloom - Surrealistic digital photo art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

Bloom

Pulsating blue
float gently between the trees
forest in bloom

When huge numbers of jellyfish, or any plant or animal, appear suddenly, it is called a ‘bloom’. Jellyfish in a bloom can number in the millions.

Digital art

Symbiosis - Drowned forests ~ Nurturing seaweed ~ Symbiosis - Surrealistic digital photo art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

Symbiosis

Drowned forests
nurturing seaweed
symbiosis

Click here to read more about kelp forests

Digital art

The Other World - You ask me why I live alone in the mangrove forest, at the edge of the infinite sea. - Surrealistic digital photo art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

The Other World

You ask me why I live
alone in the mangrove forest,
at the edge of the infinite sea.
I smile, I am silent
until even my soul grows quiet:
it lives in the other world,
one that no one owns.
The trees bloom.
The waves keep coming.

Inspired by the poem ‘I Make My Home in the Mountains’
Li Po (701-762 )

Click here to read more about mangrove forests

Digital art

Blooming Forest - Bright sunlight dances ~ Coral reefs breathe new colors ~ Old forests in bloom - Surrealistic digital photo art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

Blooming Forest

Bright sunlight dances 
Coral reefs breathe new colors
Old forests in bloom

Click here to read more about coral reefs

Digital art

Travelers - Dark sounds fill the void ~ A strong back breaks the waves ~ Travelers of the deep - Surrealistic digital photo art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

Travelers

Dark sounds fill the void
A strong back breaks the waves
Travelers of the deep

Click here to read more about humpback whales

Digital art

Jacob_02_symb-s

Homo ipsum perdere

Originally a subspecies of homo sapiens, which, however, in the course of the 20th century developed into a species completely alienated from nature to such an extent that anno early 21st century it can be seen as a separate species.
Homo ipsum perdere ("man who destroys himself") is distinguished from homo sapiens, apart from the mentioned alienation from nature, by an unfounded sense of superiority over all other species on earth -including homo sapiens-.
Also, the homo ipsum perdere is guided by greed and jealousy, wages war against his own species, rigorously and permanently destroys his habitat -especially the subspecies homo ipsum perdere destructus which predominates in the richest, most developed countries-, is willing to exploit every living creature and to exterminate them to extinction, and murders his own fellow species out of hatred, greed, jealousy or sheer stupidity.

© Jacob Berghoef

Drowned Earth series, printed on fine art cotton paper, no frame

Drowned Eart series, not framed

Drowned Earth series, 7 prints, printed on museum quality fine art cotton paper, no frame. Paper size 15x15cm, ~6x6". Print size 10x10cm, ~4x4".

Price without shipping costs: €90 / US$95 / DKK675

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Drowned Earth series, printed on fine art cotton paper, walnut color glassless frame, passe-partout

Drowned Earth series, framed and with passe-partout

Drowned Earth series, 7 prints, printed on museum quality fine art cotton paper, walnut color glassless wooden frame, white passe-partout. Frame size ~17x17cm, ~6.7x6.7“. Paper size 15x15cm, ~6x6". Print size 10x10cm, ~4x4"

Price without shipping costs: €230 / US$245 / DKK1700

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Living In The Other World - You ask me why I live alone in the mangrove forest, at the edge of the infinite sea. - Surrealistic digital photo art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

Living In The Other World

You ask me why I live
alone in the mangrove forest,
at the edge of the infinite sea.
I smile, I am silent
until even my soul grows quiet:
it lives in the other world,
one that no one owns.
The trees bloom.
The waves keep coming.

Inspired by the poem ‘I Make My Home in the Mountains’
Li Po (701-762 )

Variation on the work 'The Other World', created for an online exhibition.

Digital art

Swimming In Tears II - While trees cry . Fish drop their tears . Drowning earth - Surrealistic digital art, part of the collection Drowned Earth by Jacob Berghoef

Swimming In Tears II

While trees cry
fish shed their tears
in endless waves

Digital art

Availability

All artworks on this website are available as Open Edition fine art print and as Limited Edition fine art print in any size, on fine art cotton paper up to a maximum size of the shortest side of 110 centimeters ~ app. 43 inches*, unless a photo specifies that certain editions / sizes are no longer available.

For works with the text 'Digital art', see the page with info on those works.

*Ask for the maximum sizes on other types of paper.

Availability

All photos on this website are available as Open Edition fine art print and as Limited Edition fine art print in any size, on fine art cotton paper up to a maximum size of the shortest side of 110 centimeters ~ app. 43 inches*, unless a photo specifies that certain editions / sizes are no longer available.

*Ask for the maximum sizes on other types of paper.

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