During this course, we discussed what we felt was an impending Apocalypse in the Anthropocene. Though we didn’t just discuss climate change, we also talked about language, artificial intelligence, human nature, and communication. In this collage I wanted to push back against the idea that humans are ‘getting worse’, more accurately I want to say that we’ve always been this bad. The centerpiece of this collage is Narcissus, a painting by Caravaggio. It represents humanity's obsession with themselves. To represent that I added Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and an image of the Rosetta Stone. Humanity has a perception of ourselves as a noble creature that is somehow better than ‘non-sentient’ living things. Below Narcissus, in the water, I added some of our worst atrocities: The Holocaust, the atomic bomb, and climate change. I finished the image by putting a hand reaching from the water to meet Narcissus’ hand and complete the composition. This is part of ‘the Now’ that I envision, but more specifically I think it is the now that I currently exist in. Bosch’s painting, though most of the suffering happens in the final panel, suffering exists in the second panel as well. People are drowning, being killed, trampled, and injured. In my image, I wanted to reflect that notion. The perspective that we look from often in this class and others is that if we don’t do something now, bad stuff will happen, instead of focusing on the fact that bad stuff is happening in the present, and has happened in the past. I drew from what John Berger wrote about Bosch’s painting: There is no horizon there. There is no continuity between actions, there are no pauses, no paths, no pattern, no past, and no future. There is only the clamor of the disparate, fragmentary present. Everywhere there are surprises and sensations, yet nowhere is there any outcome. Nothing flows through: everything interrupts.” Though I offer the different collages I have made as different parts in a timeline, they still all exist in the same time period and under the same circumstances.