Landscape for Drowning: Hesperus (Landscape for Drowning 2)

The second panel in a large-scale triptych, "Hesperus" is an ecopoetic retracing of Renaissance depictions of Armageddon. It shows the world as it may yet be, with boiling seas, despoiled landscapes, and vast pits into which whole cities fall. The triptych itself, comprised of "Phosphorus" as well as "Venus" and "Hesperus," considers the narrative of climate change as unfolding through a menacingly surreal landscape of wreckage, fire, and flood which characterize the Neo-Apocalyptic movement of climate change art . Modeled after the three-panel altarpieces of Dutch and Italian Old Masters, and drawing from traditions of apocalyptic imagery varying from Hieronymus Bosch to glacial breakdown predictions, "Landscape for Drowning" accordingly charts a nightmarish future of climate catastrophe and civilizational annihilation.