The Tragic Absurdity of Pursuing Artificiality
My art directly addresses issues related to the age in which we live—the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is identified as the global impact human beings have had on the environment (land, oceans, atmosphere, and immediate space beyond the atmosphere) and on other forms of life on our planet including the human caused sixth mass extinction of species.
In Simulacra, where simulacra are referring to representations or semblances of original forms, I explore the notion of culpable artificiality in replacing the natural. I extend the culpability to include myself as an artist who is setting up the situation and the viewer who constructs the images through gestalt. I wonder do humans have a tendency to create synthetic systems and structures? Is it natural to create artificial structures? What is the relationship between the natural and the artificial?
In Absence, I wonder about future possibilities where the natural world has been replaced by synthetic environments. I also wonder if there will be any species to catalogue? And how will humans adapt to these new environments?
The work is ironical in that it employs the very problems of technology and artificiality to comment on the problem of technology and artificiality. How can we come to terms with these artificially manmade substances, systems and structures that invade our everyday lives and particularly plastics whose very production is part of the cause of global pollution and possibly to some extent the current extinction crisis?
In Simulacra, where simulacra are referring to representations or semblances of original forms, I explore the notion of culpable artificiality in replacing the natural. I extend the culpability to include myself as an artist who is setting up the situation and the viewer who constructs the images through gestalt. I wonder do humans have a tendency to create synthetic systems and structures? Is it natural to create artificial structures? What is the relationship between the natural and the artificial?
In Absence, I wonder about future possibilities where the natural world has been replaced by synthetic environments. I also wonder if there will be any species to catalogue? And how will humans adapt to these new environments?
The work is ironical in that it employs the very problems of technology and artificiality to comment on the problem of technology and artificiality. How can we come to terms with these artificially manmade substances, systems and structures that invade our everyday lives and particularly plastics whose very production is part of the cause of global pollution and possibly to some extent the current extinction crisis?