The Anthropocene Book of Trees and Fossils
(Unisa Art Gallery, 2019)

In her work, The Anthropocene Book of Trees and Fossils, Ania Krajewska determines that ignorance of our biological and ecological heritage is a dangerously short-sighted paradigm at the end of the second decade of the twenty first century. The Anthropocene, a term coined by Eugene Stoermer, marks the visible geological consequences of human impact on the planet and includes debates on the calamity of the extinction of species, deforestation, plastic pollution, carbon dioxide emissions, fossil fuel abuse and the general recklessness of human behaviour. Krajewska addresses the possibility of the Eremocene (the Age of Loneliness on our planet) where the environments are pillaged, and biodiversity is extinguished beyond repair.