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“Towards a Golden Future”
Artist: Senay Ramada
The painting “Towards a Golden Future” by Senay Ramada presents a powerful, multi-layered reflection on human ambition, greed, and the price we pay for the illusion of prosperity.
At the top of the canvas, two hands reach toward one another, pouring down streams of gold. Rather than symbolizing abundance or generosity, the gold acts as a destructive force—it spills downward, seeps into the earth, and drains it of life. The hands do not create or protect; they release, squander, and strip bare. This is a gesture of greed, where giving is not an act of generosity but one of reckless accumulation and control.
Beneath this golden rain stands a solitary tree—leafless, fragile, almost spectral. It represents life, nature, and the future itself: still present, yet deeply endangered. Its roots sink into a ground scattered with bones and remains, silent witnesses to the devastation left behind by greed. This so-called “golden future” is revealed to be built upon loss, death, and desolation.
The contrast between the lush, vibrant flowers above and the barren, exhausted earth below emphasizes the divide between apparent abundance and its true consequences. The beauty above is deceptive—it never reaches the roots. The gold does not nourish life; it suffocates it.
The painting poses a difficult but necessary question:
What kind of future are we building when greed becomes our guiding force?
And can gold truly symbolize success if it destroys everything living in its path?
“Towards a Golden Future” offers no comfort, only a warning—that true wealth lies not in what pours from our hands, but in what we choose to keep alive.
Senay Ramada 