Nautilus the Great Protector (2015)
The Nautilus is perhaps the oldest cephalopod on earth. It has existed for 500 million years. It is seen as a guardian for navigators and fishermen throughout the Wansolwara (One Salt Water) but recently it has been appropriated by the Nautilus corporation, who seeks to mine the deep seabed for precious minerals potentially irreversibly damaging the pelagic food chain and the origins of all life.
Terrestrial and seabed mining is most keenly felt within the mountains and the waters of Papua New Guinea. Many Papuans been killed for the sake of foreign corporate mining interests and it is the blood of the people that runs from the mountains to the sea mixed with poisons of the mining tailings.
This woodcut series combines ink with shoe polish and blood on paper to consider the violence of deep sea mining.
The Nautilus is perhaps the oldest cephalopod on earth. It has existed for 500 million years. It is seen as a guardian for navigators and fishermen throughout the Wansolwara (One Salt Water) but recently it has been appropriated by the Nautilus corporation, who seeks to mine the deep seabed for precious minerals potentially irreversibly damaging the pelagic food chain and the origins of all life.
Terrestrial and seabed mining is most keenly felt within the mountains and the waters of Papua New Guinea. Many Papuans been killed for the sake of foreign corporate mining interests and it is the blood of the people that runs from the mountains to the sea mixed with poisons of the mining tailings.
This woodcut series combines ink with shoe polish and blood on paper to consider the violence of deep sea mining.
