Abi Parish
Fossil Futures: Epochs of Ecological Entropy
This body of work translates the expansive and incomprehensible phenomenon of climate change through the materials of Mother Earth herself. Using natural and processed elements, such as clay, soil, metal, rubber tar, electrical waste, and fiber optic cables, I engage with the very substances that have been extracted, manipulated, and consumed by humans. These materials are not merely mediums, they are collaborators, carrying the scars and memory of ecological disruption and adaptation through past, present, and future epochs.
Speculative sculptures of hybrid plant forms imagine a future where nature and industry are inseparably fused, echoing the idea that the Anthropocene will leave behind, not only chemical traces, but also mutated remains. Through these potential future fossils, I seek to visualize what life may not only survive, but also thrive, in a post-human epoch: unfamiliar, uncanny, and yet hauntingly beautiful.
This work sits at the intersection of grief and curiosity, confronting the irreversible damage inflicted upon our planet while also imagining new, symbiotic possibilities. It is both a warning and hopeful gesture, an attempt to listen to the regenerative rhythms of the Earth.
