A post-apocalyptic biomorphic creature is held captive for an observer to tour the select relics of a by-gone era; the observer has yet to witness the collapse of the Anthropocene, but is invited to come take pictures of a future which will come to pass.
I am interested in the allegorical and metaphorical potential that resides in the paradoxical nature of creation and destruction. Can destroyed nature morph anew into the frayed matter of dysfunctional technology? In metamorphosis, one entity changes into another as symbolic of positive change and renewal, reconciling thus the dissonant and antithetical; nature and technology, the fluid and the rigid, the geometric and the amorphous.
Relics and artifacts add complexity to the disjointed tapestry of humanity’s various narratives, and modern day anthropology and ethnography aims to catalogue our past in the hopes to preserve it for an uncertain future. Can humanity coexist with nature without exploiting the latter to the brink of extinction? Is there an agency in nature which may cull the scourge of vanity and re-equilibrate the balance between that which perishes and that which survives?
This antithetical creature is both an effigy to the idiocy of human pride, greed and shortsightedness that may someday yield cataclysmic destruction and a symbol that alludes to the distorted primordial beauty that our foraying into nature sometimes generates.