C.A.V.E.R.N Series

This series of photographic work explores the theme of 'archaeology of the future' by observing the marks made by 21st century human presence and impact on our environment, re-framed and re-imagined as modern Cave Drawings. Thus the work both explores our enduring instinct as humans to record our presence, to make indelible marks of our existence upon an environment, and how this relates to our concepts of memory, forgetting and change, as well as visualizing fragments of a future where our modern 21st century society is an ancient history, only interpreted through obfuscated evidence scattered and mystified by the changing state of the environment caused by that same destructive impact made by 21st century society. The pieces hover between the ancient or primal and the futuristic and dislocated, in order to provide an abstracted perspective on our present reality, envisioned as a folkloric, inaccessible past, in order to pose questions about legacy, bringing us back to the question of memory, forgetting and change in relation to our changing planet, and how our impacts will be remembered by this environment when much of us is forgotten.