The Climate Crisis, Illustrated

September 30, 2019 6:12 AM

Pejac's drawings clarify the destructive absurdity of the Anthropocene

Ahab straddles the tip of a gliding whale. A lone fisherman sits on a bed of dissolving ice. Into an endless sea of bobbling plastic, a young boy casts out a line into a suffocated sliver of water. These are just some of the disturbing climate renderings from Barcelona-based street artist Pejac. In these provocative drawings, human and natural worlds collide with absurd and destructive consequences that reveal an all-too-inexorable truth: The Anthropocene will spell the unraveling of both if we don't act now.

posted by hilaryjade (3 comments total)

Looking forward to seeing these framed, captioned and jpg compressed on a facebook post in the near future
posted by Chaffinch at 6:50 AM on September 30, 2019 [2 favorites]

I dunno, real life seems to be providing images of the destructive absurdity of the Anthropocene pretty well.
posted by gwint at 8:12 AM on September 30, 2019

Anthropocene : if any other species in the history of this planet has ever been arrogant enough to name an epoch after itself, at least it was smart enough not to leave the evidence behind after it disappeared - at least not in a form we can understand.
posted by Cardinal Fang at 9:59 AM on September 30, 2019