Martina O'Brien
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Mirror, Map & Crystal Pyramid 
The Headless City, TULCA, 2016, Galway Arts Centre, installation view
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Thread on Fabriano Paper
49cms x 59cms x 3
2015 


The term Anthropocene is used to define Earth’s current geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on global confirmation that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are being altered by humans. Mirror, Map & Crystal Pyramid explores the genre of Anthropocene fiction by connecting together an image of the downfall of Valhalla, a step-by-step guide to making an origami paper crane, and a geometric model of a crystal pyramid structure. In Norse mythology Valhalla is an enormous hall ruled over by the god Odin, to which half of those who die in combat travel upon death.
  • Martina O'Brien
  • Projects
  • Texts, Reviews, Publications
  • CV
  • these hollow-earth fantasies
  • Legacy Plots
  • of ephemeral measure