We created Earth in Action to provide a lens into what's happening on our planet, as it happens. Whether it's something typical, like the current air temperature, or an extreme event like a major dust storm, we wanted to provide an opportunity for people to see them.
In Troels Carlsen's exhibition Alt flyder - Everything flows - nothing is permanent, and everything is connected. Flora and fauna are quite literally intertwined in Carlsen's large tableaus, often painted with acrylics on intricately collaged archival material sourced from antiquarian bookstores. Dynamic, dancing skeletons with bodies of radiant green springy stems and lush leaves sprout blackberries and pink wildflowers, surrounded by bumblebees. Bodies, bees, flowers and fruit are interdependent in an ancient biological choreography.
Thomas Berry once aptly noted, "The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects." This statement reinforces the need for a paradigm shift toward recognizing interconnectedness among all forms of life.
"It's like a chess board," Paul O'Sullivan explains, as we sit outside the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, where his mother had spent several days in the lead-up to his birth.
