The Object/Abject Archive: A New Taxonomy for The Anthropocene
As I continued to glean objects/abjects from my environment, I found myself slowly mimicking the actions and impulses of Western explorers and scientists of the past, collecting, rendering and classifying these unusual objects with hopes of reflecting them back into the world.
In the same way that naturalists catalogued during the Enlightenment, I found myself desperate to archive the legacy of the anthropocentric era with the hopes of raising ecological awareness.
Our ironic relationship with ecological consciousness.
“There is nothing natural about the Museum of Natural History. ‘Nature’ is simply another eighteenth and nineteenth-century fiction.” — Robert Smithson
According to his views, museums were not their collections but a collection of historical perspectives on what constitutes knowledge.
The process of sorting my collection into a curated archive reflects care and understanding of our human impact on the world around us.
