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pilgrimages, both of the beautiful
and the sublimely horrific, quickly

fade away from our consciousness,
leaving us, at the end of the

journey, right back at the beginning,
having in a sense gone nowhere?

Will there be significant lifestyle
changes after the joys and the

horrors of the pilgrimage
experience have faded? This work
picks up on a concern reiterated

among pilgrims through all of the

pilgrimages, that intentionally to
change behaviour on a large scale
drastically and quickly enough to

save humans from extinction seems
impossible from where we stand

now. There is a sense from the
work’s imagery that humans are

smothered to the point of drowning
in our own plastic-coated waste

materials. Perhaps the desires that
lead to self-destructive stupidity

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