This thought of breath of life is continued in Sharmila Samant’s video Dilemma, 2005-9 that like Khurana’s work reveals the woman’s belly allegorically representing the earth. The focus here however, is not only on the belly itself, but the child that is growing inside. Given the current political unrest in the world, wars and violence, the mother and child are anxiety–driven, and in a dilemma to consider living in a society filled with war, hate and fear that is destroying not only human life, but threatening the existence of the earth as well. The baby is long overdue and the clock is ticking, and a decision needs to be made soon.

Baptist Coelho further highlights the consequences of this environment destruction in the video Something Terrible has Happened, 2009. In this work, Coelho presents an anonymous businessman mechanically inserting air vent endlessly into a fertile landscape. Every insertion is marked by a brutal blow of an axe that leaves the landscape scarred with air vents, in which air that benefit the human race harms the environment through global warming. Thus, in contemplating this seemingly insignificant act of consuming the landscape, the viewer is left to calculate this cost for future generations to come. Aaditi Joshi further highlights these effects in her 2009 video, Suffocation. Here the artist is seen gasping in a plastic bag, an outcome resulting from our own negligence in producing environmental hazards materials that further deplete our natural resources and threaten our existence. Here the artist metaphorically asks why we are seeking our impending doom and our own asphyxiation. It is time to pause-- breathe and do something about these issues now, as it is already late.