Brooke Ripley

“My work examines the emergence of the Anthropocene epoch and its relationship with the distortion of the landscape as it relates to the development of the environment.

As I work, I layer the paint in such a way that I may walk myself through the environment I see in front of me, what it once was, and what it could be.

My process mirrors the alteration of the environment, thus allowing me to meditate on the ways in which we have encroached upon the earth and vice versa. In doing so, I relate the perpetual alteration of the environment to the perpetual alteration of history. For, as I reflect on historiography and examine the emergence of the Anthropocene epoch, I find that they inform and contextualize one another.”