Notes:

Work produced for the Anthropocene Exit and Playing at Change series reflects the incalculable absurdity of a global economy fundamentally at odds with our shared ecology.  The [im]material flows of commerce and product creates a fiction of progress that is constructed from pure human exceptionalism.  We, ‘the first of the last men’ trade our futures for the present, with transactions that create a terminal velocity in which we will be able to participate in the drama of our own [eventual] demise.

We are faced then with a new and inescapable reality, in which the world-wide acknowledgment of our impact evolves into either abject intransigence, or the condition of solastalgia.  Willingness alone simply produces an artifice of meaning and self-indulgent virtue signalling – anxieties of which I am equally guilty.

As individuals we live for longer but die evermore slowly, and as a species we capitulate to the toxicity of unconstrained [Western] progress within a finite world.  “We have reshaped the world’s climate. The question is: how will climate change reshape us?”

Materials: Sand-cast & RTV cast recycled lead; lead solder; steel; high intensity LEDs; CR2032 breakout board; coin cell batteries; 12v DC axial ball bearing fan; 12v 1.2Ah rechargeable lead acid batteries, all from modified and appropriated [toy] plastic patterns.