ROUTE TAKEN

Alternative roads were taken due to flooding which lead us to some enjoyable unexpected places.

Road Kill

While travelling I tallied and aimed to name every roadkill on our path.The expectation before leaving was to document the amount to map our journey between place to place without considering the psychological impacts of this intention. To say it didn’t move me would be a lie and while starting out as a way of measuring distance developed into analysing such a minute window of the Anthropocene and our shifted realities of country. The swiftness of a life taken, Without reccognition, ackowledgment or commonly without stopping the car.

“ The legacies of western mechanism have manifested through repeated assertions of human exceptionalismthat man is the only animal to make tools; that man is the only animal with language, a sense off fairness, generosity, laughter; that man is the only mindful creature. On one hand, all of these claims to exceptionalism have been thoroughly undermined. Other beings also do wonderful and clever things; we are not a unique outlier but rather apart of a various continua. On the other hand, however, the term Anthropocene reminds us that it is not yet time to jettison a sense of human exceptionalism. Instead, by foregrounding the exceptional damage that humans are causing, the Anthropocene shows us the need for radically reworked forms of attention to what marks the human species as different. “

-Shimmer