In this final collage, I used a painting of Napoleon, The Scream, and a sunset from Ivan Aivazovsky. Each painting individually has its own message, its own subtle meaning, but when paired together, much like words and letters, they gain a meaning they once did not have. I find this especially notable with humor. Two components of a joke or picture can be completely serious, but when put together, their juxtaposition makes it a comedy. Although it is small, this is what I was trying to do in this collage. Napoleon is a very serious figure, and one that represents conquest, victory, and battle. At the very same time, the scream is very different, although it never seems comedic to me, there is an air of less serious intent behind it, though perhaps that is only the medium that was used. When overlaid though, I find it creates something quite humorous. Napoleon, depicted mid conquest, is screaming, surprised, and feeling any other mix of emotions. When combined with the sunset behind the building, a great irony itself because the beauty is nothing other than the flames of destruction, the piece gains a perfect juxtaposition of humor, and destruction. 
Just like art, humor has a way of arriving at a more genuine experience than pure words can. Of course, some humor consists only of words, but often humor has distinct pauses, posture, images, sounds, everything it can to construe the most possible meaning. This connects back to Bo Burnham, because he chooses to tackle the crisis that we all face by using his comedy. In a very meta moment, he even sings a song about solving problems with comedy. He says, “Healing the world with comedy, the indescribable power of your comedy, the world needs direction, from a white guy like me, who is healing the world with comedy,” (Burnham, “Comedy”- Inside). In a very similar sense, I am attempting to use comedy to highlight the position we are in. If language cannot explain our position seriously, perhaps we shouldn’t be so serious at all. 
There is a second message in this collage: some people, brutal war-lovers, people like Napoleon, find beauty in the destruction and havoc of suffering. This idea is a disconcerting one, but it is highly insightful. War and pain are not universally bad things. Of course, this statement is counter intuitive, because both seem like such terrible parts of our society. For some however, they are points of pride and joy. When war is something that cannot universally be seen as bad, how can climate change, or any event like this be universally good or bad? It cannot, because if we delve into the world of relativism, we cannot escape. But, if we are to ground ourselves in some truths, even if these truths are relative and not a priori (and as such not real truths at all), we can build a world of ideas upon these semi-truths.
For me, it is my reality that the earth is dying, but it is also a matter that is of great possibility, because not yet is the earth dead, and so in this moment we hold absolute agency, and to use humor to reconcile our position, is in my eyes a worthy task.