Unaware that not so long ago the planet used to be different, the children of the Anthropocene play and live in an apocalyptic legacy, in a world of waste, polluted waters and almost non-existing trees or birds. Unknowingly and probably unwillingly, they represent the modern estranged relation between the human beings and nature, which has already reached the point of no return. They sail on imagined rivers, climb on imagined mountains and get lost in imagined forests. They imagine nonexisting animals, nonexisting flowers, and a world which no longer is, …..they are the offspring of the Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene marks the dawn of a new Era for humanity and the planet, a new geological period in which human made activities have made permanent changes to the surface of the planet and are hold responsible for the mass extinction of plant and animal species, water and land pollution and climate change.
The offspring of the Anthropocene series represents this new generation of children as well as an agonizing outcry for help; the outcry of a wounded planet and (unknowingly) of the children who are born into it.
Unaware that not so long ago the planet used to be different, the children of the Anthropocene play and live in an apocalyptic legacy, in a world of waste, polluted waters and almost non-existing trees or birds. Unknowingly as well, and probably -if given a choice- unwillingly, they represent the modern estranged relation between the human beings and nature, which has already reached the point of no return.
They sail on imagined rivers, climb on imagined mountains and get lost in imagined forests. They imagine nonexistent animals, nonexistent flowers, and a world which no longer is …..they are the offspring of the Anthropocene.