Sarah Mills
The Anthropocene: The Story of Humanity in Nature
The past, present and the future. The dark, the grey and the light. An interactive art installation. A discussion of how humans interact with nature. Not just a practitioner in the arts, but in the natural world sciences I ask questions like; How did we get to this human centric point? How can we create a less species dominated reality? I want to provide a space where people think about extinction, and expanding into solution, through the created artistic space. Where one can think about the answers to these large questions and the hard truths. Through my own blending of art and science, I can help provide an image beyond starving polar bears or harmful cascades, and into a brighter, equitable future. This will be a travel through the art I created during my time at Antioch, along with other immersive objects and scientific facts, that can provide to the viewer a new narrative of human life on Earth. This story will begin abrasive, in order to confront our perceptions, and will end on a gentle, hopeful note. Much the way my inquiry of this subject unfolded to me in my science and artistic examinations. The weight of the knowledge begs me to present this information to the public, through my own talents, and to give this as my gift back to Mother Nature.
