Plush Planet - Wide Open Spaces 2021
“It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.”
- Martin Rees
By zooming right out and zooming back in well down the tendril of time, Plush Planet takes the omnipresent theme of impending apocalypse beyond its immediate terror and far ahead into an imaginative and playful time-scape. Re-wilded with reimagined recycled objects, the space grants its inhabitants a cameo in a future that is post-human.
The environment has changed drastically, and as such, so have our modes of survival and perception. Plants and animals have merged, forming entities bolstered by the wisdom and experience of the other. The mycelium network has long since been understood as being part of a universal one whose connective properties cause repercussions once understood as magic. The synthetic has become organic. Dwellings live and grow. The countless plastic particles that couldn’t break down any further became integrated into entities that evolved to incorporate them. By utilizing the discarded this potential future is prefigured. Icons of excess that are currently all too familiar, appear as relics of the past. As creators, we are consigned to interpreting the preexisting. To stretch this, I fold in the fodder that fuels imaginings of the most obscure: microscopic, alien, deep sea, psychedelic
- Martin Rees
By zooming right out and zooming back in well down the tendril of time, Plush Planet takes the omnipresent theme of impending apocalypse beyond its immediate terror and far ahead into an imaginative and playful time-scape. Re-wilded with reimagined recycled objects, the space grants its inhabitants a cameo in a future that is post-human.
The environment has changed drastically, and as such, so have our modes of survival and perception. Plants and animals have merged, forming entities bolstered by the wisdom and experience of the other. The mycelium network has long since been understood as being part of a universal one whose connective properties cause repercussions once understood as magic. The synthetic has become organic. Dwellings live and grow. The countless plastic particles that couldn’t break down any further became integrated into entities that evolved to incorporate them. By utilizing the discarded this potential future is prefigured. Icons of excess that are currently all too familiar, appear as relics of the past. As creators, we are consigned to interpreting the preexisting. To stretch this, I fold in the fodder that fuels imaginings of the most obscure: microscopic, alien, deep sea, psychedelic