2018
acrylic on canvas
91 x 91 cm
Photo credit: Alex Shaw
2017
acrylic on canvas
91 x 91 cm
Photo credit: Alex Shaw
2017
acrylic on canvas
91 x 91 cm
Photo credit: Alex Shaw
Doomsday Vault
2017
acrylic on canvas
75 x 52 cm
Photo credit: Paula Payne
Small Houses series, 2017-2018
Currently there are one thousand seven hundred and fifty seed vaults located around the globe, acting as repositories to store bio-diversity. Discussions surrounding them suggest that doomsday philosophies underpin the idea of seed vaults. This raises the question of whether the global idea of saving biodiversity in food crops and endangered species in anyway practical or achievable. [1]
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[1] Harrigan Chris, “Doomsday Vault,” Smith Journal 10, no. Autumn 2014 (2014).