Holding a Bowl of Dust was painted in 2008, by Ashley Cecil, to get people to understand the hardships of poverty in Africa and around the world.(Anna Kramer, Holding a Bowl of Dust) As we know today Africa is the poorest continent on the planet. Africa is barren and dry, pretty much everywhere, which limits the cultivation of crops making many families and tribes subjected to little food and water. Poverty there has climbed to a preposterous level, and the painting by Ashley Cecil is trying to get people to see that people in Africa are much less fortunate than people in countries like the United States and Great Britain.
Ashley Cecil is an Activist painter. (Kimberly Mok, The Art of Activism) The painting is solely painted to get people to see the hardships of poverty and climate change. The setting takes place in a barren landscape, or Africa, and it portrays to young women who should have a bountiful basket of grain. Instead, they have a bowl of dust, signifying that the lack of food, which- is due to poverty and the climate change. Thematically, poverty is solely represented in the painting. The painting is symbolizing the struggle of impoverished families to feed themselves in a world that is getting poorer and poorer, because of the economic crisis and the lack of careers that people are no longer getting a chance at. (Anna Kramer, Holding a Bowl of Dust)
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