Anthropocene objects
I’m intrigued by the evocative objects that people choose as significant markers of our changing world in the Age of Human. A ClimateCultures series captures these material offerings, and we published our latest three Anthropocene Objects today.
Our archive so far
a 13th-century image of Cosmic Man
a 19th-century book on clouds
a 3D collage of disparate elements
a chalk hillside figure of a human, age unknown
a child’s bone kayak from the Arctic Circle
a classic tractor
a field of darkly reflective solar panels
a floating metal island
a homemade wooden paddle
a mobile phone
a photographic series documenting artistic interventions on an iceberg
a plaque marking the birthplace of the world’s first plastic
a prayer wheel for generating power
a record taking sounds of Earth to the stars
a satellite network observing Earth
a sculpture of a calcified bladder stone
a shell sculpture on an eroding coastline
a stone from a loch beach holiday
a sugar sculpture of a bleaching coral reef
a micro battery
a used water bottle
an atmospheric experiment destined for Mars
an incandescent lightbulb
an outdoors cooking set
an urban fatberg rehoused in a museum
the first long-lasting record stylus
the world’s first blanket