lorenzopoli photography

THE GEOGLYPHS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE 

This photographic investigation is a personal reflection on human values and how they carve into the Land. As a European Architect expanding into the metaphysical realms of the Visual Arts, I've traversed South America’s mining territories for 18 months in search of meaning.

I've sought to engage with the spiritual dimensions of our epoch, immersing myself in monumental voids descending into the Earth. What emerged transcended the commodification of minerals for energy transitions; these voids stand as testaments to humanity’s aspirations. 

While ancestral geoglyphs once etched cosmovisions into the ground, the Anthropocene now inscribes modernity’s chronicles onto Earth’s body. From lunar paths spiralling down into infinities to gridded imprints of industrial impermanence, sacred lands have become kingdoms of accumulation, empires of extraction. These are the geoglyphs of our time—monuments to the values we pursue. 

Humans possess the divine power to consciously and collectively cooperate. Through ‘Spirals of the Anthropocene’, I draw viewers into an enigmatic vortex of human ambition and ecological disruption. This multimedia spatial narrative reverses the downward spiral of accumulation into an upward expansion of consciousness: it urges a collective language—an idiom of Nature above anthropocentrism.

The geoglyphs of our epoch stand as testaments to our dominion over the Earth, yet they ask: what if we chose a new path?

"Be still, the Earth will speak to you"—Aboriginal Proverb