SEAKINGS

Someone once said “happiness only real when shared.” I say “climate change only real when incoporated in product.” Thinner plastic, greener logos, browner cardboard. Plastic-bottle thread, plastic-pellet shoe soles, plastic meat. The vast ocean of product offerings are becoming symbols for humanity’s greatest struggle, and for some humans their only warning that climate change is not only real, but on its way. What do you call the stage of the Anthropocene when we can no longer use plastic bags?

The following project attempts to communicate this train of thought. I attempt to raise attention to the normalization of global warming, climate realism, the dissonance between corporations and “social responsibility”, and where product fits into all of this.

“In the Anthropocene when geologic conditions and processes are primarily shaped by human activity, climate indicates not only atmospheric forces but the gamut of human activity that shape these forces. It includes the fuels we use, the lifestyles we cultivate, the industrial infrastructures and supply chains we build, and together these point to the possible futures we may encounter.” (Badia, Lynn, et al. Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene, Routledge, 2020.)

3D rendering and video done in collaboration with Tom Espinos, a very talented friend of mine.