Introduction
Art, in its various forms – visual, literary, performative – plays an important role in ecocriticism. It lends a powerful voice in the Anthropocene. Its various forms represent different modes of thought expression, which can be at once beautiful as well as dystrophic, gently persuasive as well as despotic. They can be as vigorous and urgent like a propaganda, a manisfesto, a summon; or they can be as meditative and empathetic as a love poem, a watercolour, an alpine symphony. All are capable of evoking soulful ecological thoughts in an individual, or exhorting a sense of ecological duty in politicians and captains of societies.
The concept of E-Cart is simple: An Ecological Collection of Art, treasures comprising of subjects and objects that human beings are passionate about.
The following chapters represent my own learning journey in the Anthropocene. The first is a parody of humanism articulated through a painting – an anthropocentric unitary self who tries to look beyond the darkness that entraps him to search for meanings in the outer margin of the cosmos. This will be followed by chapters on poetry, ceramics, sculptures, essays and music before a final reflection, but by no means the end of my ecological journey, in the epilogue.
