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Artist: Vegesent
Materials: Discarded mirror, sand, various blue pigments.
Dimensions: 30 × 30 cm 12 × 12 in
Concept:
CONCEPT:
Culture holds the self apart from the environment it is already inside.
Water covers 71% of Earth's surface, yet dominant cultural frameworks continue to position humans as separate from the living systems that sustain them.
The Great Barrier Reef has experienced repeated mass bleaching events since 1998. Marine heatwaves now occur so frequently that many coral communities cannot recover before the next event, marking a fundamental shift in the reef's disturbance regime.
The work consists of a circular blue painted surface with embedded stones and a mirror at its centre. The blue circle represents Earth's waters, the stones evoke geological time, and the mirror places the viewer within the system rather than outside it.
The work investigates the cultural separation between self and environment, inviting the viewer to recognize identity as embedded within Earth's living systems.
Research based on: Emslie et al. (2024), Ecological Monographs.
Artist: Vegesent
Materials: Discarded mirror, sand, various blue pigments.
Dimensions: 30 × 30 cm 12 × 12 in
Concept:
CONCEPT:
Culture holds the self apart from the environment it is already inside.
Water covers 71% of Earth's surface, yet dominant cultural frameworks continue to position humans as separate from the living systems that sustain them.
The Great Barrier Reef has experienced repeated mass bleaching events since 1998. Marine heatwaves now occur so frequently that many coral communities cannot recover before the next event, marking a fundamental shift in the reef's disturbance regime.
The work consists of a circular blue painted surface with embedded stones and a mirror at its centre. The blue circle represents Earth's waters, the stones evoke geological time, and the mirror places the viewer within the system rather than outside it.
The work investigates the cultural separation between self and environment, inviting the viewer to recognize identity as embedded within Earth's living systems.
Research based on: Emslie et al. (2024), Ecological Monographs.
