- Year: 2021 – present
- Total participants: ±2.500 (first contribution André Kuipers)
- Materials: acrylic paint on wood with gold wooden frame
- Size: 200 x 125 x 5 cm (78,7 x 49,2 x 1,9 in)
- Category: unique
- Location: Galerie Dennie Boxem Zwolle
- Price: highest bidder (90% of the proceeds will be used to buy farm land and rewild it)
Greta Thunberg: Let’s Rewild The World forms a diptych with David Attenborough: Let’s Rewild The World. The diptych shows the oldest and youngest generation fighting for a better climate.
The artwork was released the 10th of October 2021, on the Dutch National Day of Sustainability in Academiehuis Zwolle, where the first green dot was added by Dutch astronaut and climate activist André Kuipers. At this point, over 2.500 people added their green dot to the painting.
The art project of Dennie Boxem is inspired on Sir David Attenboroughs Netflix film A Life On Our Planet. In the documentary Sir David presents a number of beautiful solutions that can truly improve our relation with our environment. However one thing kept bothering Boxem: these solutions depend mostly on political decisions. Herein lies a problem. Because this does not change the feeling that he (and most of our population concerned with climate change) cannot seem to shake: it is the feeling that your personal efforts as an individual to encounter climate change are negligible in the big picture, a drop in the ocean.
Boxem thinks this is the main feeling that dispirits people to really act.
And this is the feeling he wants to break.
In the painting Sir David touches an industrial landscape that will turn greener by an action of an individual: Boxem asks the visitors of his gallery to add one green dot. Just one, not more. It is clear that one dot does not have much impact, but it shows that every dot was needed to accomplish the goal. It visualises that every little action does count; and shows how many care and act on the problem.
This simple dot of green paint makes participants leave his galerie with more positivity, hope and decisiveness to keep making a change.
