Emotional Biodiversity ‘The Last’ (Queen’s College, Oxford)“The human brain has not had time to evolve to meet the very recent and unprecedented challenges of climate change” Ann-Christine Duhaime MD Neuroscientist Minding the Climate

“Climate change despite being so definitely caused by humans is so profoundly non-human so expansive that our understanding is continually outpaced by its total seepage into our environment” Timothy Morton Philosopher Hyperobjects

During this artistic residency Di explored the emotional and neurological evolution of our species through the lens of climate change.

Di proposed the creation of a short speculative film which will imagine a world where human perception has moved beyond the anthropocentric worldview into an ecocentric or cosmcentric understanding of the planet or cosmos. This world will be expressed through a fictional character called ‘The Last’ who has found a way to decode the language /vibrations of nature through a series of listening devices that she has designed and manufactured by Di.  An evolved cosmocentric human who wanderers the landscape absorbing knowledge from soil roots and subterranean life via her instrumentation.

The Last believes that the soil is the brain or subconscious of the earth and holds answers as to how we as a species are equal to and must work in synergy with all living and nonliving elements of the planet and beyond.