Chelseigh Buchanan

Athens, where the land is pure and untouched.

The bliss environment is disturbed by the introduction of human intervention. The convenient location of the hill surrounded by rivers and streams becomes a place for the humans to gather and develop. The hill now has a name, The Acropolis. Architectural structures appear as places of protection and assembly.

What is this now? The water from the streams turn to concrete, which floods the rest of the ground below the hill, turning the sacred land into a sea of concrete that flows far into the horizon.

The humans appeared to have noticed but it is too late. In a confused attempt to preserve the ancient structures the concrete tap has been turned off, and now it is quieter all we can see is the Acropolis holding onto the last piece of floating land. Below the surface are the drowned ruins that the humans are ‘saving’. Protective glass seals are being placed over the historic structures to preserve them, as they are now frail. 

We now have a two faced city.

The working ancient and new city, and the abandoned city; the structures which were not sealed in time as they are, high maintenance, ugly, ill and dying. The problem is, they did not save them nor did they dispose of them. Now they lay on the seabed in their decaying state.

So how are they going to fix the problem when the humans are such hoarders? Even when it is harmful, they insist that the structures serve a purpose - it is up to us for that purpose to be realised...