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'What we leave behind'
The Plastic Age
10/02/2022
The latest artwork in my environmental issues series is a triptych entitled 'What we leave behind'.
We now live in the Anthropocene, an epoch where humans dominate the Earth's surface geology. The surface of the planet is being noticeably altered by the production of long-lasting man-made materials, resulting in us entering an 'Age of Plastic'. Our love of plastic is now being left behind in our fossil record.
Comprising of plastic components, encaustic and fossils of knightia, a prehistoric fish that lived in the fresh water lakes and rivers of North America and Asia during the Eocene epoch, 33.9 to 56million years ago. The cradle of the work has been coated in layers of inert grit to represent the foil structure of the future as we are now degrading our soils at a faster rate than we can replace them.
You can also view the accompanying YouTube video here.
We now live in the Anthropocene, an epoch where humans dominate the Earth's surface geology. The surface of the planet is being noticeably altered by the production of long-lasting man-made materials, resulting in us entering an 'Age of Plastic'. Our love of plastic is now being left behind in our fossil record.
Comprising of plastic components, encaustic and fossils of knightia, a prehistoric fish that lived in the fresh water lakes and rivers of North America and Asia during the Eocene epoch, 33.9 to 56million years ago. The cradle of the work has been coated in layers of inert grit to represent the foil structure of the future as we are now degrading our soils at a faster rate than we can replace them.
You can also view the accompanying YouTube video here.