Mother Earth: Nevertheless She Persisted

• Photographer
  Diana Cheren Nygren
• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art / Collage

There have been 37 epochs in the history of the Earth. Humans have existed for less than two, but our impact has been tremendously outsized. This multilayered work includes scenes of human habitation behind acrylic, affixed within sweeping landscapes shaped by climate change. The painted frames allude to Earth's next chapter. In spite of human activity, the Earth continues to transform and reinvent itself. The Earth is not coming to an end. Its inhabitants cannot escape the power to shape their existence. As nature reinvents itself, can we adapt with it? Will we be part of that next chapter?