Schrödinger's Canary Consumer Event Horizon* Anthropocene*
Schrödinger's Canary demonstrates a theory positioning post-industrial humankind as a vacuum cleaner cloaked in iron-sand.
Housed in an 18th century-style industrial-revolution° era vitrine, this 'domestic black-hole incarnate' threatens to swallow everything.
While designed to advance convenience, the vac's function mimics man's exploitative voracity. Insulated from recognition it operates undetected.
Capitalism encourages mankind to limitlessly harvest resources and to ignore consequences, a collective and insatiable greed sucking the earth from under our feet. Consumerism unleashed led by ideas of false profit creating a potential 'event horizon'.
The Anthropocene* characterised by Homo sapiens' disregard for warnings challenges our survival.
To continue to encourage dubious and ephemeral gratification the device has enclosed the 'miner's canary' and camouflaged danger.
Do we unplug the urge to commodify and offer the canary and by extension ourselves, salvation?
Or: continue to obfuscate our augury by remaining willfully blind to commercial artifice... is the canary still alive?
Housed in an 18th century-style industrial-revolution° era vitrine, this 'domestic black-hole incarnate' threatens to swallow everything.
While designed to advance convenience, the vac's function mimics man's exploitative voracity. Insulated from recognition it operates undetected.
Capitalism encourages mankind to limitlessly harvest resources and to ignore consequences, a collective and insatiable greed sucking the earth from under our feet. Consumerism unleashed led by ideas of false profit creating a potential 'event horizon'.
The Anthropocene* characterised by Homo sapiens' disregard for warnings challenges our survival.
To continue to encourage dubious and ephemeral gratification the device has enclosed the 'miner's canary' and camouflaged danger.
Do we unplug the urge to commodify and offer the canary and by extension ourselves, salvation?
Or: continue to obfuscate our augury by remaining willfully blind to commercial artifice... is the canary still alive?
Based on a true story: My mother once cleaned my canary's cage using a vacuum cleaner and inadvertently sucked him up. He was around 14 years old at the time and had long before stopped singing. After the event he sang stridently every day and lived to be a very, very old bird.