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![A landscape of pink plants and two figures waving a towel on the seashore.](/img/asset/bWFpbi9zaGVsdGVyLW9pbC1vbi1jYW52YXMtMjAyMi13ZWJzaXRlLXNpemUuanBn/shelter-oil-on-canvas-2022-website-size.jpg?p=900w&fit=max&s=0c0119f727fc002102cfd33c733eefee)
![Artist Tom Hammick working on one of his paintings.](/img/asset/bWFpbi90b20taGFtbWljay1wYWludGltbmctc2hlbHRlci0xb2N0LTIyLmpwZWc=/tom-hammick-paintimng-shelter-1oct-22.jpeg?p=900w&fit=max&s=af7d131d8fc1e2d3828138240151cbaa)
Two figures, in the searing heat of a summer’s day on the Tuscan coast, build a simple blanket roof on sticks to protect them from the sun’s rays. Scratchy triffid and tumbleweed-like plants, cling to the parched earth with their shallow roots. Drawing on the hoof in this place near Pisa,overlooking The Ligurian Sea, reminded me of a setting in a dystopian JG Ballard short story.