Cocaine Hippos

Multimedia on Canvas

Size: Hight - 2ft, Width - 3ft

“Cocaine Hippos”bursts with vibrant colors and bold imagery, centering on Pablo Escobar’s infamous cocaine hippos, now symbols of ecological chaos. The devastation they cause to Colombia's ecosystem is muted, almost invisible, buried under layers of stylized street art. The painting highlights the ironic cultural fascination with Escobar’s legacy, reducing the environmental disaster to a kitschy spectacle, more focused on pop culture than the actual consequences of his reckless importation of the hippos.