Future Memories 2020
Future Memories 2020 is a series of nine artworks photographed in Australia, the Azores, Costa Rica and Greenland. This body of work represents ecosystems at opposite extremes, yet all profoundly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
Arriving in Costa Rica is like stepping into an eternal spring. Teetering on the edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire,, this narrow strip of land is a tropical hotbed supporting a staggering variety of flora and fauna. Its rugged and luxuriant land is home to six percent of the world’s biodiversity and as rainforests topple towards extinction,Costa Rica remains, for now, one of the world’s arks.
In contrast to the abundance of Costa Rica, much of Greenland’s interior remains inhospitable to life but its coastal regions host a surprising richness of flora. Here, a living tapestry of flowering plants and low-lying shrubs carpets the rolling tundra, sustaining migrating birds, insects, and grazing animals.
But with changing weather patterns, nature’s cycles are threatened.
In Costa Rica and Australia more frequent severe weather events take their toll and in Greenland, where the food chain is much shorter, the growing season for plants begins almost three weeks earlier than it did a decade ago, while the breeding and migration patterns of animals—governed not by temperature but by daylight—remain unchanged.
Enlighten Festival 2021, Canberra, Australia
Tropic projected on the facade of Parliament House
In 2020 the artwork Tropic from the series Future Memories 2020 was collected by Parliament House in Canberra.
During the Enlighten Festival in 2022, the artwork was projected on the facade of the Parliament House Building.
