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Human Impact - Limited Edition 3 of 12 Photograph
Canada
Photography, C-type on Paper
Size: 48 W x 48 H x 1 D in
Ships in a Tube
About The Artwork
This piece, for me, began germinating when my Grandfather on his deathbed left me the polar bear rug. He had been a pilot in World War II and after the war had ended, began mapping the north of Canada. He had acquired the rug from a trading post. I had always thought it disrespectful to walk on such a majestic animal and vowed to help it's voice be heard. As our world warms, Polar Bears as we know them will become extinct. As their habitat melts eco-migration is already affecting them. The world is warming as a direct result of greenhouse gasses that are negligently increasing from consumerism and gluttony. The excessive production and consumption of beef is a leading cause of this warming, methane emissions from cows are a major source of greenhouse gasses and are quadrupled from the antibiotics they are fed. Our demand for oil is still too large. We are pushing greenhouse gasses to a level that is tripping the go switch for many bio-geo-chemical and geo-physical feedbacks of global warming which are affecting the climate toward detrimental ends. The world is a living breathing organism and some climate change is natural. What we continue to do to this planet it to make it sick. This piece is meant to help us visualize our global impact, to inspire us to stop being a plague on the earth and live symbiotically with nature, to not buy in to the consumer culture that has flourished on this plant with the egomaniacal behaviour of most humans. The image itself is created from photography of the bear digitally combined with images from Nasa and Google images, including lungs and heart that subtly show through the planet’s surface, and disgruntled cows floating in space. If you look at it long enough you may also see the sick face of mother earth. http://bunnypoopi.com/#/human-impact/
Details & Dimensions
Photography:C-type on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:48 W x 48 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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My first memory traces back to the age of 2 when I was fascinated by the mustard coloured shag carpeting at my Aunt Wendy’s farm house. In grade two my satellite dish like, translucent ears, were subjected to cosmetic surgery and when I wore the head cast to school I said ‘yes, I had brain surgery’ to those who asked, because it sounded cooler. One of my first artistic creations was ‘bunny poo pie’, a sand pie decorated with little round bunny poos, embedding the idea that art can be made of anything. I then graduated from OCAD in 1996 and went on to spend 20 years in visual effects in the film industry. I worked on the first Iron Man, a bunch of Potter films and a few IMAX productions. I live by the moto 'live like you would if you won the lottery even if you haven't', which inspired me to get an MFA at OCADU in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design (with Deans scholarship). I coined the 'Coenesthetic Aesthetic' which is a multi-modal, multi-sensory aesthetic that combines biofeedback with surreal synesthetic content to create revitalizing affect. Having caught a few waves, I also aspire to be a decent surfer some day. I consider light, depth, perspective, and timing, both physically and metaphorically to be my mediums. My work explores the origin, function and interactivity of different states of consciousness and the use of synchronisation of sensory perceptions to integrate content into ones sense of self. I seek to tap in to the power of the mind to heal ourselves. I work with physical and virtual interactive objects and immersive environments to access states of consciousness that allow us to communicate with our bodies.
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