In the course of the following years it became increasingly apparent that the fate of the Earth – and not least that of humanity – would depend to a large extent on China's political, economic and ecological behaviour. In 2021 it dawned on Ralph Baudach that he had to transform the photographs from Zanzibar into the “Made in China“ series.

He digitally cleaned the motifs of algae, seaweed and other flotsam to increase the contrast between the colorful textiles and the purity of the white sand. He then commissioned one of the countless Chinese painting studios to create oversized oil painting copies of the photographs. The CO2 footprint of the works should be outright negative to underline the artistic message. This was accomplished by sending countless e-mails back and forth between Germany and China, sending lots of photos of intermediate stages and finally shipping the approved oil paintings in two batches to Germany by plane.