Size - 188 x 285 cm
Rising tide is a commentary on our relationship to our oceans, our influence on global warming with its causes, and its effects on our marine environment, and ultimately on us. Billions of years back humans crawled out of the ocean to evolve into the dominant species on planet earth. The ocean has fed and aided humanity since the beginning of social economic development. Due to the unhinged development happening in the current stage of human evolution we risk laying waste to this precious well of resources and life support system.
Humans have evolved from a species in the fringes of the animal kingdom to dominate the rest of the species on planet earth along with the environment that serves as a life support system to them all. This hegemony has been carried out with little consideration for the responsibilities and consequences involved in it.
The Holocene was the name of the geological age in which humanity thrived and reached its full potential as a species. Since the start of the industrial revolution the impact humans have had on their environment has been so great that some scientists believe a new geological age has begun, they call it the Anthropocene.
Technological development based on capitalist principles has created a human paradox where our progress can lead to our demise.
© Daniel Botelho