The Sum of Humanity

The fact of the matter is that the damage we humans have done to the earth in the last 100 years has already done irreversible damage. The inevitable and destructive forces of those consequences plague humanity and has warped the future of the planet as we know it. Conglomerate corporations and other organizing powers have led society to believe it is the individual's responsibility to fix climate change. I want to challenge that narrative and shift the responsibility from the individual to the collective. My work is positioned in such a way as to imagine what the near future may look like. Using data such as NASA’s global climate change website, global initiatives, and research projects, I have articulated images that reflect the worst-case scenario of climate change. These images are a hybrid of many present-day photos and illustrations brought together to create a near-dystopian future.

Modern hyper-consumerism, corporate greed, and lack of government intervention will push humanity, animals, and many plants to the edge of extinction across the globe.  Have we stepped across the threshold of no return? What will the world look like when we humans are extinct? These images have been crafted to bring a distant concept closer to the present and ever-near-future reality. The images are not meant to be interpreted as an ending to our planet's story but merely a conduit to allow the viewer to see outside themselves and perhaps gently push the collective of humanity toward a brighter future. .