Last Breath (2023) is a still life tableau in a cultural context, set within a gritty, richly textured urban landscape layered with embedded meaning through media. The face of this urban environment is stained with soot and tears, visibly scarred by the effects of pollution, and filled with symbolic evidence of warnings long ignored. Emerging from the darkness, streetlight captures the defiantly pure white breast of a bird as it lies dying, its beak open, gasping for air. The cruel irony of its death can be seen in its enlarged nostrils, caked in pollution; in its attempt to breathe more air in the search for oxygen, it has condemned itself to suffocation. Last Breath serves as both mourning and warning, forcing the audience to consider that in rapidly changing the conditions of our planet at a pace outstripping nature’s capacity to adapt, we condemn all creatures to inevitable extinction.