Brisbane city council film acquisition “The holocene”

2022 Underwater Film Duration 2:53

“Holocene” traces the interplay of Nature and Humanity in an underwater illustrative photographic + video ensemble. Cinemagraphic collages of local, foraged natural elements portray earth’s garden timeline impacted by humanity’s exploitation and devastation. The film cycles through stages of earths natural timeline while humanity presents both a harmonious and destructive presence throughout. Primitive lifeforms are suspended in nourishing fluid in our earliest environment, to Australian Natives developing and releasing life force into an ever more fruitful Nature. Lastly, glorious abundance as earth garden is enriched, while shadowed increasingly beneath the darkness of Humanity’s blind choices. Flame presents destruction causing the cycle to begin again.

This artwork was commissioned by Brisbane City Council as part of the Digital Art Collection within the wider Pubic Art Collection.

The work was presented across multiple locations around the city as part of “Botanica” 2022 including King George Square, Queen Street Mall and Howard Smith Wharves.