
Globe Earth Crisis
2016
Globe Earth Crisis stands as a potent environmental statement within the Triple Trouble collaboration, with Shepard Fairey applying his signature propaganda-poster aesthetic to a literal representation of the planet. The resin-coated, varnished globe is layered with printed paper imagery and mounted on a stainless steel stand, merging the sculptural with the graphic in a way that bridges fine art and activist street culture. Fairey's OBEY movement has long weaponized bold visuals to provoke political consciousness, and here that urgency is made visceral by wrapping the Earth itself in his iconography. Created in 2016, the work predates the collaboration's 2025 output, suggesting it served as a conceptual seedling for the broader Triple Trouble project. The title's blunt declaration transforms a decorative object into a manifesto, forcing the viewer to confront ecological catastrophe through the lens of Fairey's confrontational visual language.
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- Resin, printed paper and varnished globe with stainless steel stand
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