Everything’s (Dis)connected (2012-2018)

In EVERYTHING’S (DIS)CONNECTED, Christine Simpson contrasts the beauty of all living things with signals of a world falling apart. She thus shows the essence of the Anthropocene, the era in which the climate and atmosphere are affected by human activities. In her digitally manipulated collages, she juxtaposes natural and unnatural worlds, using the primordial element of water as a means of conveying the disastrous effects of rising sea levels, pollution and melting ice caps. This shows how the natural rhythm in which ecosystems reproduce and renew themselves is disrupted by human activities. The work shows our failure in our responsibility to the planet on which we depend so much.