Before my escape from the rat race I worked as a Sustainability consultant and Building Services Engineer for nearly 5 years. Since my escape I’ve only deepened my interest in environmental and climate change issues, and I’ve worked on environmental cartoons for UECNA (an organisation against aircraft noise), Ecolo (the French-speaking Green Party in Belgium), and the Ontgroie Degrowth conference in Utrecht in June 2019.
Please email me: lescapeartiste@gmail.com if you’d like me to collaborate with you on an environmental cartoon.
Below are the previous environmental pieces I’ve written along with accompanying cartoons:
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The Home Edit
At the end of April I binged watched the entirety of The Home Edit on Netflix and reorganised the house. Which yes, was therapeutic, but also raised some questions about the things we need to keep: While I was doing this I was reading ‘Time for Things: Labour, Leisure and the rise of Mass Consumption’ Read more
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Imagine Brussels
I was going to enter this picture in Imagine Brussels’s art competition , but the competition only accepts entries that have an opensea.io nft certification link, and the prize money is in cryptocurrency, and after looking at the process of creating NFTs in a little more detail and hating the idea of having to get Read more
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Doomerism
I don’t know if maybe my more recent cartoons have been a bit doomerist (a term thrown around on twitter to people who say it’s too late to do anything about climate change). I’m not without hope when it comes to the future, and I certainly don’t want to hinder action on climate in any Read more
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De-growth and job interviews..
Back in April 2021 I had my first job interview in 7 years for a Sustainability Consultant role in a new Sustainability division that the company was setting up. I was not the successful candidate, and I know I still wouldn’t have been had I said what I wish I’d said in my cartoon, but Read more
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