Child of The Novacene

Using the term 'Novacene' as coined by James Lovelock to describe the new age we may face as we near the end of the Anthropocene; this body of work explores a future dystopia in which Artificial intelligence has become the dominant species on Earth. It imagines what the relationship humans could have with Artificial Intelligence and more specifically, what it would look like if people saw the AI as a higher power and chose to worship it, forming a new religion. For this project, I have used self portraiture in an abstract landscape, physically devoting myself to this higher power. This landscape is familiar yet unfamiliar leaving it up to the audience to decide when this shift in power on earth could happen and how that affects the world surrounding the subject of the image. This series explores the relationship between an individual and this higher power in a world where reality has become uncertain.