The frog and the crane, 2011

The frog and the crane, 2011

In this project I am addressing the personal end of the world, which most people fear above all else, and have adopted animal forms to depict it. This is because I find it interesting that, as part of the animal kingdom, we allow ourselves to speculate on such concepts.
As animals, we have the natural survival instinct that all the animal kingdom possesses. However, in our constructed societies we do not feel the natural fear of being hunted or the real threat of lack of resources. So we create them, or replace them with modern equivalents. The need to replace the void where a more real survival instinct once dwelt has been used to empower social, religious and political constructs and has given rise to much speculation as to how it will all end. Now we have the means to make this stereotyped apocalypse a reality and we thrive upon its fear.
The images presented show the futility of the everyday fear of the apocalypse and the natural state of ‘holding on’ of surviving. My representation of the end of the world started yesterday, with a frog that held on to life for every last moment. No calendar was needed: the frog was instinctually aware of survival yesterday and would have been instinctually aware tomorrow.
The world is surely as much a personal experience and will end in many individual moments.

Project End of the World Final Exhibition


  11th-16th December 2012
Mile END Art Pavillion
Clinton Way, Mile End Park
London E3 4QY
Private view: 11th Dec. 6pm-9pm
Opening times: 12th-15th Dec. 12pm-7pm; 16th Dec. 11am-2pm
click to view mapTube: Mile End (District, Hammersmith & City, Central)
Buses: 22, 205, 277, 309, 323, 339, 425, D6, D7
For RSVP or more information, please contact Ms. Lucía Burbano
or click attend on the Facebook event