All That Is Lost

Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

‘It’s heartbreaking to know that there are only two female Northern White Rhinos left in the world. In All That Is Lost, I wanted to depict femininity as something strong despite the extremely fragile circumstances. Femininity and its energy - to me - is something intimately powerful, forceful and yet empathetic.’

The Northern White Rhino was once abundant across Central Africa, but staggering rates of illegal hunting for its horn have already led to its extinction in the wild. Since 19 March 2018, there are only two known rhinos of this subspecies left, called Najin and Fatu, both of which are female; barring the existence of unknown or misclassified male Northern White Rhinos elsewhere in Africa, this makes the subspecies functionally extinct. They live in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya and are protected round-the-clock by armed guards.

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