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Micro-Landscapes of the Anthropocene

Suzanne Biniahan 9

9. The concept of ‘blue-greeness’ reflected in Marginal Worlds, here on the slide there is of a satellite view of the earth particularly over Australia looking into the town Weipa in Queensland with a population o 2840. It was the first town that popped up as the satellite hit Australia coming down from Papua New guinia. The satellite shows is two things, first, towns and populations, next important land marks and natural places such as low altitudes and mountains. The blue greenness is what we see when we zoom completely out of the world, from above in space, but it make up other colours and textures, it is a mix of what the earth offers.

John Muir an American nature poet changed the way Americans saw the earth, giving humans a new way of seeing the earth and its beauty using descriptive metaphors and images to paint a stream or a bush.

I argue that a romantic view of the world, in the way it is written and treated works to promote the earth as a symbol of sacredness, this is problematic because everything on earth is a part of nature, it sits on marginal realms of being. The Antropocene shows us the ugly affects that humans have done to nature, we can do more than romanticise but act through intra-action and ecological thinking about every aspect of our lives.

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MARGINAL WORLDS The blue, green and brown images represented on each link highlight how the world consists of these colours. 'Blue-Greenness' is a concept that reflects the overall scope of the world. Every colour, thing, person, animal, place, once zoomed out - from the damp earth, to the sky, through the atmosphere, and looking on from another planet - we get a mixture of Blue-Green, in a dot of everything that the world holds.