Through a fictional future narrative, this series delves into current anxieties surrounding environmental worries, and the climate crisis. A Jagged Circle is an allegory guided by these feelings, deep felt reservations and frustrations about present and future consequences of human activity. Emerging into a post-apocalyptic world, the protagonist embarks on a journey of survival, release and reconciliation. Behind the story is a rumination on the uneasy relationship the human species has with nature.
The work is driven by the reality of the planet’s precarious predicament in the present, also the attitudes and behaviours that have created it, and continue. Aspects of eco-feminism and posthumanism have influenced my sentiments. Nature’s increasingly devastating responses to the Anthropocene is rapidly shattering delusions of a human world separate from it. I wonder whether humanity would repeat the same mistakes after a cataclysmic event, if that is what it may take to change course, and what redemption lies ahead.
The character of this story grapples with his place in a new world, confronting his own nature and learning to survive. The viewer is invited to imagine potential endings, or new beginnings for the story of humanity.
Matt E Lewis 