Unveiling the Anthropocene

Many of us enjoy hiking to beautiful sights and swimming through nature's sweet waters. Unfortunately, some of the world's wildest wonders that have been here for millenniums will vanish within us and our children’s lifetime.

This piece uses ink and watercolor to portray a skeleton praying as it is killed by the ashes of a volcano. The skeleton represents someone who refused to believe and accept the truths about climate change and the harm we as people are causing to our plan

I call this piece “Symbiotic Death”. Humans tend to decimate surrounding environments in an effort to achieve capital success in society. By doing so, we are effectively killing ourselves in the process.

One of the things I struggle with the most, while coming to terms with my own realizations about human-caused climate change, is an ideological barrier that exists between me and nearly all of those I love.

Throughout this course, I felt like I’ve been pushed to see things in a way that may be uncomfortable for me. When I saw the final project and different ideas I could do for it, I wanted to continue this trend of putting myself outside of my comfort zone.

There were a lot of people and animals that were affected by the fires, and it was sad to see that so much of the land was destroyed due to the fires. This picture is a way for me to reflect and to raise awareness for what I experienced while living there

This project was designed to emphasize the impact of the positive and negative outcomes the Earth experiences due to climate change and the various influences we have learned about over the course of this semester.

My piece is comprised of three panels, each displaying a different facet of society’s progression into inequity and natural crises. While learning about the Anthropocene, a piece I read from Friedrich Engles kept coming to mind.

For my project I melted over fifty aluminum cans in a homemade foundry. My original idea for an artistic project was to create a globe that represented the Earth.

This project was inspired by the work of Giles Cenazandotti, who transformed plastic trash washed ashore from the ocean, into sculptures of recycled animals.

Earth is everchanging, and whether we want it to stop it or not, we can’t, and it won’t. Our Earth is evolving as time goes by, and we all know we can’t stop time as of now.

For my project, I wanted to create something that would bring awareness to the bleaching of our ocean’s corals.

I wanted to show the miraculous canyons that were once drowned. I picked linocut because I feel like there isn't a better medium than something so hands on and simple. I hope you feel as you look at it the same as it feels to be floating after a long day

I recently heard someone wise say that anything is possible in an emergency. The inconceivable becomes conceivable. In a state of emergency, we do what we have to in order to grapple with loss and protect what else could be taken.

I’m fascinated by how easy it is for people to destroy the home of someone else. I felt like drawing these species would help cement them in my mind as creatures that deserve to be protected and thought of. And it worked!

I chose to create a collage of pictures that I have taken in some of the most beautiful parts of the world. I made those pictures black and white to show that a lot of the beauty is gone. I chose hands that are holding a beautiful sunset to show that the

This is my final project, it is a three foot by four foot painting I did of humanity picking the fruit of the taxonomic tree of life.