Saluti da Venezia
How much human can fall down?
We are getting closer and closer to climatic irreversibility, “Once the temperatures are too high and the size of Greenland’s glaciers is too low, it will make it impossible for the water to refreeze and that will be the time of irreversibility”
Brigham Grette Professor of Glacial Geologist.
In my work I represented a group of tourists of the future who visit the Venice lagoon, now covered with water.
Visitors walk the canals of the city, wearing diving suits that allow them to walk on the ground of the city observing the underwater wonders.
The couple in the foreground takes a photo immortalizing a place completely changed and distorted by climatic events. The human imposes itself on the surrounding landscape, showing us how despite being an advocate of a global disaster, it manages to profit from it and to enjoy the now irreversible situation.
We must remember that nature will continue to exist with or without humanity.
Software and equipment used
Daz, Quixell, Blender, Photoshop
25 January 2021
The human figure is increasingly present in the ecosystem that surrounds it and with increasing ease it finds itself inhabiting places that were previously inhospitable.
To do this, human being relies on technological prostheses, leading him more and more to a delusion of omnipotence.
The technique has generated a real religion which, as in the most radical beliefs, generates in those who practice it a blind faith towards technology.
Nature has always been feared by man, since the origins of the discovery of fire, man has tried to excel over it. Today it is our most feared enemy who is asking us for help, or rather sending us signals that something is changing.
The climate is certainly the clearest sign that our radical change is needed. The causes are as many as the production of Co2 from various human activities, the deforestation of green lungs, the exploitation of fossil fuels. The global warming curve is estimated to have started to rise due to man-made causes around 1800 and it is expected that in 2050 the threshold will rise above 2 degrees.
If this rise in temperatures is not interrupted, forecasts indicate that many coastal areas in the world will be submerged such as Florida or the Netherlands, but also many lagoons such as Venice. The destruction of these places, in addition to causing significant damage to humanity, will also lead to a significant destruction of biodiversity, extinguishing many species already in danger of extinction.
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