Impermanence

Impermanence explores the landscapes of West Coast Tasmania, and how these landscapes have been indelibly shaped by the human presence within them. While evidence of human impact is ubiquitous, both the vastness and ruggedness of the West Coast environment provides an ever present reminder of the relative insignificance of human beings, of our being specs in time. We and our built environments are, like life itself, fleeting and impermanent. 

Impermanence questions and challenges the popular marketing cliche of regions like the West Coast being undisturbed, pristine wilderness. It invites a deeper engagement with and reflection about the nature of our relationship with the natural world. Impermanence provides a salutary reminder that we as a species are not the world, and that the world is larger than our conceptions of it.