The Entanglement, a contemporary vanitas contemplating the repeating death of a landscape, is a pictorial representation of our humancentric relationship to nature. Experienced somewhere along the highway between Melbourne and Canberra, this once biodiverse landscape was claimed, cleared, colonised by a single species, cleared again, and capitalised, leaving mounds of debris and the remnants of a pine plantation.
As the blinding light illuminates the devastation, it also exposes our role in this genuinely complex inseparableness of matter and matters, the imaginative and cultural failures of our economic, cultural, and political constructs, and our actions that continue to push the planet towards the point of collapse.