landing

30 May landing

Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou:

This piece is an effort to render visually a speech by David Brower – a distinguished American environmentalist – that juxtaposes man’s existence and economic growth with the existence of the natural environment. “Let us take the six days of Genesis as an image and use it to picture what has actually happened over the past four billion years. Our planet was born on Monday at zero hour. During Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday a.m. the Earth was being formed. Life began at midday on Wednesday and developed in all its organic beauty over the next three days. Only on Saturday at four in the afternoon did the first reptiles appear. Five hours later, at nine p.m., when the sequoias were rising from the ground, the large reptiles disappeared. Man only emerged at three minutes to midnight on Saturday evening. At a quarter of a second before midnight, Christ was born. At a fortieth of a second before midnight, the industrial revolution occurred. Now it is midnight on Saturday, and we are still surrounded by people who think that what they have been doing for a fortieth of a second can go on indefinitely…”