The Sky is Falling Quinn Hopkins

Created as an exploration into the contradictory worldview of Capitalist life in the western world, “The Sky is Falling” is a series of 3D Digital collages that visually compares constructive and deconstructive narratives of the Anthropocene. There are nine works throughout the series, Apocalypse in the Anthropocene, Barely a Bull, Clear Cutter, Entropy, Elevate, Hive Minded, Is there a God, Natural Gas, Sovereign Solution, and Water is Life. Each work visualises a dichotomy of human perspective on the environment, civilization and philosophy. In Clear Cutter, a pile of cut logs are surrounded by suspended machinery stacked tall like a tree as we try to mimic what we destroy for we cannot imagine an alternative way of life. Other works investigate capitalism and religion as means of control and oppression. As an Indigenous person, my ancestors' way of life was destroyed to make way for this. It is a way of life that my family adapted to in a few short generations, and we see the apocalypse as something that has happened and continues to happen.