The Flanet (flat planet) making a rare appearance wearing an invisibility cloak

Some years ago, two characters appeared in my work: The Depressed Planet and The Flanet. They emerged, I suppose, as a way of dealing with a state of increasing exhaustion, a sense of an encroaching future without a future. We live in a world in which the climate crisis is real and terrible, and only one of a litany of imminent, self-imposed apocalypses humans seem incapable of acting upon. I noticed a growing sentiment among my students and artist friends that I can profoundly relate to—a feeling of hopelessness and exhaustion, and of collective mourning for what has been irredeemably lost on our planet. Since then, the two characters have made increasingly weary appearances, and the materials I choose to render these husked figures through tend to dissolve between an idea of their traditional use and their appearance. Sometimes the materials perform like an invisibility cloak—as if The Depressed Planet and The Flanet were dressing up to disappear.