The Radiant Glory of the Anthropocene explores the 6th mass extinction through the lens of the human experience of joy and anguish. Mass extinction is an abstract concept that can only be understood with human intellect rather than direct experience. This has no bearing on the reality of the situation. However, it does mean that without seeking out the information and contemplating it, we can live in a totally human-created, human-centric environment that has no relation to the ecology that was destroyed in order for that environment to exist. Our direct experience can be void of the truth of ecological destruction and mass extinction.
 

The work of the Radiant Glory of the Anthropocene invites viewers to contemplate the cost and contradiction of modern industrial global civilization. The skulls embody the human experience of joy and transcendence while simultaneously perpetrating unseen destruction.
 

The skulls of primates and hominid cousins lend a specific consideration of our "human" origins and mammal reality. This includes the raw, primal physical reality as well as awesome human intellectual achievement. The complex truth encompasses both sides of the duality.