All of these six panels are intended to be presented as a group, to tell the grant story of our times. A story of an incredible explosion of connectivity, technology and science.  A story of environmental and humanitarian crises, walls being destroyed in one place and bigger build in others, about the possible onset of the sixth extinction.  Scientists give us about twenty years to start serious changes to our economy and lifestyles to just begin averting these crises.  What will we do?  What will win?  Wisdom, compassion and sustainability or ignorance, aggression and exploitation. We are deciding now.

On the positive note, another important component of this series is the presence of Light. Light is represented in these images as series of horizontal lines.  Without Light there is no colour. To me, Light is Creation.  It is Love.  It is constantly moving, rejuvenating, boundless, life creating force. Light in my images is interacting with human figures (figures based off my photographs of the Limbo Game where participants walk under the ever-lowering bar)).  Their precarious poses both appearing to be relaxed and concorded are mirroring our collective compliance and fears in the face of the alarming environmental and humanitarian changes taking place at the unprecedented speed in front of us.

There are two other images. One, the Illuminator, the source of light (life giving) or maybe explosion (destruction – either manmade or natural.)?

The last image, a mysterious building covered with scaffolding (image based on my photo of the construction of the new Second World War museum in Gdansk, Poland, 2013), symbolizing the power of humanity as a collective to reach beyond time and space.  Again, series of coloured lines show the Light.

We can both create and destroy.