 ’While we destroy the natural world around us, we have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial ‘experience’ of nature—a reassuring spectacle, an illusion.’
In a fraction of our Earth’s history, we humans have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in tens of millions of years. Scientists are calling it a new epoch, The Anthropocene – the age of human. We have concentrated in cities and divorced ourselves from the land we once roamed and from other animals. Yet we cannot face the true scale of our loss.
This work reflects on how, at a time of environmental crisis, a consoling version of nature has been packaged as a curated ‘experience’ – an illusionary spectacle designed to obscure and reassure.
‘The Anthropocene Illusion is a triumph’
‘Stunning and thought provoking’
‘A remarkable, arresting and urgent body of work.’ 254 x 300mm 196pp including 75 colour images 12pp index section with extended image descriptions and an essay by Zed Nelson Casebound in a printed green Colorado cloth
The Anthropocene Illusion: the book  |