The title "In My Defense" gives a double meaning to this diversion of Friedrich's famous painting "The Traveler Contemplating a Sea of Clouds". “In my defense” is both the words of the character at the center of the work. This man absolves himself of responsibility for the pollution and the accumulation of this waste in front of him by using the expression "in my defense" which serves to defend himself, to find extenuating circumstances. Like many1