Barking in the Desert

DETAILS Title: 'Barking In The Dark' Year: 2019 Dimensions: 39 x 79 inch / 100 x 200 cm Medium: oil on canvas ABOUT In Barking in the Desert, a solitary male figure stands beneath an unforgiving sun, suspended within a landscape stripped of refuge. The terrain is barren, the light relentless — an environment that offers neither concealment nor comfort. The man’s stillness suggests a moment of confrontation rather than action. He appears caught between recognition and resistance, as if awakening to the consequences of a system long sustained by denial. The desert becomes both literal setting and psychological space: a terrain of exposure where inherited habits and constructed narratives dissolve under scrutiny. As in much of de Meijer’s work, the figure operates as an archetype navigating systemic tension. Here, environmental precarity merges with internal reckoning. Barking in the Desert reflects on the thresholds at which awareness emerges — when silence can no longer hold, and transformation becomes less a choice than a necessity. THEMES Environmental Crisis · Reckoning · Resistance · Exposure · Transformation AVAILBILITY Available for institutional exhibition and private acquisition. Currently located in New York City.