“It’s yours to play with now...”

Oil painting on canvas of a shattering planet earth being gifted to a young girl. She is illuminated by the light of its terrifyingly beautiful destruction.
You can see she is apprehensive to accept with her closed fist yet emotes a certain bit of curiosity and delight at the glowing fragmented object. It is sad the way the earth is being treated with no real regard for future generations and terrible to think I can’t say to our children with full confidence that there will be a habitable place to live with in our lifetime.

A short statement of the proposed artwork's relationship to the theme of "Light and Shadows" (150-500 words).