the greening
film 7:03 min
2024
shown 17th July 2024, at Positionen Magazin Launch, Rosastern, Munich.
The earth is getting greener, but not all plants are created equally.
Increased industrial green vegetation growth across the planet means we are creating contradictory narratives on our planet. ‘the greening’ forms part of an ongoing research into the idiosyncrasies afforded by industrially accelerated leaf growth, commercial crops, and misattunement of remote sensing technologies. Watching the commercial expansion of palm oil plantations on Peninsular Malaysia with a plane’s eye view from above, while ‘listening from below’ with the protected but struggling site of Penang National Park, previously known as the Pantai Acheh Forest Reserve on Penang Island, the work reveals a disconnect and hierarchies image based Earth observation technologies can create in debates around biodiversity preservation and ecological conservation.