Allegory of the Fall of Sentience

Yin Yung Sabrina Pun

This piece was inspired by architect Richard Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map of the Earth (left), the map of the planet that was moulded from an icosahedron and rearranged, so the continents were combined into one vast piece of land, as was the oceans. Buckminster Fuller's initial intention for this unique was to promote unity in humanity, as each piece land is connected, distorting the archetypal perspective in common telluric maps, a representation that each human comes from the same origin despite in ethnicities and characteristics, a subtle emphasis of the unity of beings despite difference in races and species. My allegorical rendition of this interesting piece of cartography, through, compromised the figure of a huge otherworldly being (the continents) making connection with the lonely Antarctica. The white-suited figure in the far most right represents Antarctica while the black-suitors represent the spiritual deities of respective continents in physical form, engaging in modern activities and heated discussion in the fate of... Antarctica, a symbolism of the polar regions' environmental fragility and climate change. Above 'Europe' are the North pole and its neighbouring islands, represented by a reincarnated spirit which was burning away but hatching and ready to avenge its fallen friend down south (Antarctica). The template of the deities was based on the major lineage of personalised concepts, the constant improvisation of the major apotheosised, modern-day characters, rushing from the sky and rising from the grounds to ‘attack’. Antarctica, the forever still and natural bastion is certainly crumbling - a silent yet deadly inevitablity.