How the world collapses: idyllic US postcards on which the apocalypse is actually

They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is exactly what the American artist David Opdyke illustrated. At first glance, his work This land It is an idyllic picture of the United States, but if you look at it in detail, it’s easy to see how this idyll collapses.

Opdyke painted 528 paintings with gouache. All of them are in one seasoned retro style and more like postcards. Each of his works is part of a larger one: all of them are collected in a single collage, on which it is easy to recognize the main natural beauties of the United States. A mountain landscape filled with rivers and lakes. But it is worth bringing each of these works closer, as it becomes clear that the idyll is too far here, and on postcards the world is gradually collapsing. Nostalgic America is being destroyed by environmental disasters, human intervention and disease: pipelines stretch over national parks, tornadoes rage somewhere, and frogs rain somewhere. More or less calm in the center, but all this chaos, tearing the world apart, is approaching it too.

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