From the Series Anthropocene Mountain: What Will Stop the Virus? by Tom Rossiter

The title asks a question. The skyline has no answer.

What Will Stop the Virus? comes from the series Anthropocene Mountain by Tom Rossiter, about 2020. It is an archival print in an artist-made shou sugi ban frame, the term for wood charred to preserve it. Anthropocene is the proposed name for an age shaped by human activity, and many artists used the pandemic year to ask what that age had brought. A city skyline, doubled above and below a horizon, floats in blue and orange among pale virus forms. Thirty-three inches square.

The frame was burned on purpose. The year was not.