Exhibited in November of 2022 at Meeniyan Art Gallery, Gippsland, this exhibition uses mountains and landscape to highlight the relationship humans have with the natural world. Interested in how the scale and majesty of these places can humble perspectives of the human experience, Rich questions why it is that we have evolved to see ourselves as separate from the natural world.

The series aims to explore this disassociation, and lament the path human progress has paved into the unprecedented era of the Anthropocene. The devastating effects of climate change and environmental degradation have directly inspired these works, in a response of grief and sorrow. Helplessly watching on as the natural world fades; loss of species, habitat, biodiversity and entire ecosystems destroyed. Decades of intensive fossil fuel burning has warmed the planet; melting polar icecaps, melting carbon-rich permafrosts, rising sea levels, setting off chain reactions with catastrophic consequences. As David Attenborough has attributed, ‘We have completely destroyed that non-human world………human beings have overrun the world.’