ANTHROPAUSE | FINITE 

July, 2021

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Finite is an immersive audiovisual installation about the limits of natural resources and the consequences of treating the world as endlessly available. Developed for Anthropause during the COVID-19 pandemic, the work emerged from a period when ordinary movement briefly slowed and the limits of human systems became unusually visible. It begins from a simple proposition: human life is embedded in a planet whose materials, climates, and ecosystems are finite.

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Across five projections and a spatialised sound environment, a forest gives way to skyscrapers, a burned landscape, explosions, and a vast form that appears at once as mountain, iceberg, and fragile fragment. Digital rendering is combined with recordings of forest and city environments, archival sounds of war, and an original composition for strings and piano. The work moves between the sensory richness of the natural world and the violence of its transformation.

Finite does not present ecological limitation as an abstract warning or a catastrophe. By staging collapse, disappearance, and quiet attention within the same space, it asks what becomes visible when the promise of limitless progress is interrupted. The installation makes room for a more careful understanding of value: one grounded in vulnerability, interdependence, and the irreplaceable conditions that sustain life.

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