Ground That Betrayed

The image should make the viewer feel the terror of solid ground becoming unreliable, while preserving the dignity of people who have survived loss rather than turning disaster into spectacle. The approach draws on Latin American social realism, especially Oswaldo Guayasamín’s anguished hands and José Clemente Orozco’s monumental tension, using distorted form and compressed space to express fear, rupture, and communal endurance.