Micro-Landscapes of the Anthropocene

The "Art-Earth" - A Path

The environment has become entrenched in the collective human art project of our garbage.  Waterways, humans and other animals, and recently even the atmosphere have been saturated with microplastics.  Microplastics have become a toxic material connecting factor between humans and the rest of the world.  This common plasticity has turned the world into a hybrid nature/plastic art object that we are all implicated in.  The non-discriminating reach of microplastics brings humans and nature together though a shared internal reality, this mutual plasticity works to make marginal worlds less unfamiliar to us, especially in experiencing them second-hand through art, images, or text.  Microplastics connect us physically with the environment rather than through intangible, imagined means and plant us firmly in the world.  Microplastics reinscribe an ecological duty to the human since they remind us that, although their reach has exceeded us, their origin is with the human.

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