unsustainable pressure

The release of the UN report on climate change got me to go dig out some attempts at conceptual photography I made a couple of years ago where I tried to represent the unbearable pressure we are putting on this planet that is our home (and that of countless other creatures), the rapacious attitude we display towards its resources and the threat to the ecological balance we have become.

As in the previous one, I used a "stress relieving ball" coloured to resemble the Earth with a band ornamented with child-like drawings of earth's creatures. On top of it is an old iron scale weight that my husband brought back from one of his work trips (it's from Iran). My husband's arm, clad in black to blend into the background, is invisibly supporting the whole thing from the back. Again I used the natural light from our kitchen window.