‘Whale Circles Underwater Skyscraper’ and Other Unnatural Scenes of the Future
Travel Blog • Joanna Kakissis • 02.12.09 | 10:37 AM ET
In The Unnaturalism of Human Habitat, artist Don Simon has created a disturbing and beautiful series of tryptichs showing animals interacting with the hyper-developed world of humans. The skyscraper piece is especially apocalyptic (and seemingly post-human) but many of the other works are bizarrely poignant: Bison in a traffic jam, a family of lowland gorillas perched on a steel tower, an alligator in a pool of trashed tires, a “parking lot Serengeti” with lions and giraffes. Scenes from the travel brochures of a broken future? Maybe not, but Simon’s message of respecting natural habitat ought to resonate with anyone who loves planet Earth. (Via TreeHugger.)