“Saints for the Anthropocene,” 2019
“Saints” is a portrait series born of my desire for guides through the anthropocene, the sixth mass extinction, global climate chaos, and into the Transition. Initially finding inspiration in statues of Buddhas and Saints, and subsequently in public monuments being torn from their pedestals in town squares, my intention is to use the power of canonized personae to direct solutions to the crisis we live in. I've chosen leaders whose works confront the paradigm of separation and extraction with viable and generative alternatives.
From left to right the portraits are of:
Buffy Sainte Marie, Octavia Butler and Vandana Shiva.