Adagio in G Minor (Albinoni)
DISAPPEARING WORLD
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch as a result of human activity. This large number of extinctions spans numerous families of plants and animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods. With widespread degradation of highly biodiverse habitats such as coral reefs and rainforests, as well as other areas, the vast majority of these extinctions are thought to be undocumented, as the species are undiscovered at the time of their extinction, or no one has yet discovered their extinction. The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background rates. The Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services published by IPBES in 2019 posits that roughly one million species of plants and animals face extinction caused by anthropogenic impacts.
ARBOR, 2019.
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// 200 x 140 cm // collage on cardboard
MY HEART IS THE WILD SEED, 2019.
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// 100 x 70 cm // collage on cardboard
BREATH IN... BREATH OUT.., 2019.
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// 100 x 70 cm // collage on cardboard
MOONDANCE, 2019.
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// 200 x 140 cm// collage on cardboard
MEMENTO MORI, 2019.
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// 140 X 100 cm // collage on cardboard
MUTUALISM, 2019.
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/ 200 x 140 cm // collage on cardboard
Sir David Attenborough said we face "irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies".
" But there is still hope, he said, if dramatic action to limit the effects is taken over the next decade.In the 20 years since I first started talking about the impact of climate change on our world, conditions have changed far faster than I ever imagined. It may sound frightening, but the scientific evidence is that if we have not taken dramatic action within the next decade, we could face irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies."
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
