Climate Crisis Paste-up
This paste-up project reflects on the climate crisis to challenge and expand our ecological consciousness. I created the lichen symbionts to represent a positive relationship to the diversity of non-human life in a non-hierarchical manner, recognizing the respective degrees of intelligence, ability, and creativity of all organisms. Through juxtaposing the non-hierarchical symbionts with human-caused disastrous events, I intend to invite discourse around environmental justice and post-anthropocentrism.
To exemplify the urgent need for changes, I used 2019-20 Eastern Victorian bushfires and 2018-19 Murray-Darling basin fish death crisis as the backgrounds of the posters. Then I superposed the symbionts on top of the calamity to cast a sense of hope and care in times of crisis. Finally, I changed the background images to black and white, signifying the historical implication of these events, which record the negative impacts of heedless human actions that upset the ecological balance.
This paste-up project reflects on the climate crisis to challenge and expand our ecological consciousness. I created the lichen symbionts to represent a positive relationship to the diversity of non-human life in a non-hierarchical manner, recognizing the respective degrees of intelligence, ability, and creativity of all organisms. Through juxtaposing the non-hierarchical symbionts with human-caused disastrous events, I intend to invite discourse around environmental justice and post-anthropocentrism.
To exemplify the urgent need for changes, I used 2019-20 Eastern Victorian bushfires and 2018-19 Murray-Darling basin fish death crisis as the backgrounds of the posters. Then I superposed the symbionts on top of the calamity to cast a sense of hope and care in times of crisis. Finally, I changed the background images to black and white, signifying the historical implication of these events, which record the negative impacts of heedless human actions that upset the ecological balance.