DASHA SHKEL
The Last Report. From Antarctica With Love.
A luminous glass polygonal object in the form of an iceberg, using mapping technology, projects a rather conceptual image from its depths into the outside world. In 5 minutes, thousands of years pass before the eyes of the viewer. Forty million years ago Antarctica was a green continent. The South Pole was inhabited by a variety of animals and forests grew across the expanses of Antarctica. This is already a scientific fact but esotericists are sure that then there were beautiful ancient cities inhabited by human civilizations. Someone puts Plato's Atlantis there, but most still agree on the mysterious Hyperborea. The displacement of the earth's axis and climate change have turned Antarctica into a place of white silence. Forests, gardens and cities disappeared under the waters, ice and snow, safely hidden from us. Our culture and civilization followed the technocratic path of development. A climate warming could not only open the ruins of ancient worlds, but also easily drown modern mankind. Any global technogenic or ecological disaster can quickly wipe out our civilisation from the face of the earth. The history of the planet could well have been built according to such a cyclical principle: water freezes and turns into ice, stopping any development, and then new growth grows, becomes overgrown with technology and debris, icebergs begin to melt and again water, again ice, water-ice-water-ice ... To break this vicious circle can only be the realization that we are part of nature, influencing global warming we can lead the planet to irreversible consequences for us as a species. If we want to preserve ourselves, we should not forget about this, as we forget about other species on the planet, about ecology, the choice of the path of development, and also we should not fall into the delusion that we have subjugated everything to ourselves. The story of global repetition and eternal return, about the change of nature and beautiful cities ice and garbage techno-urbanism, which is shown by the faceted flickering iceberg, raises general questions of the existence of mankind.