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“The Needle And The Damage Done” (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. The Needle And The Damage Done is a Digital Collage which aches with the pain of the growing epidemic in Opioid related addiction and overdose. Like Morphine and Heroin, Oxycodone and Fentanyl are Powerful synthetic derivatives of the Poppy plant. Although Oxycodone is legally available by prescription and was originally intended for pain management, it is highly addictive and its rates of prescription have skyrocketed, this is resulting in daily overdose deaths in Canada and America. As the danger has become clearer and regulations have tightened on the prescription of Oxycodone; Individuals already caught in a cycle of addiction are turning to both Heroin and Fentanyl, Oxycodone's more potent, more addictive and more lethal cousins to fill the void.

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"The War On Sleep" (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. The War On Sleep is a Digital Collage which ambles bleary eyed from one day to the next under the pall of chronic sleep deprivation. With the electrification of nighttime, daily stressors, shiftwork and constant demands for attention from social media and our electronic devices, todays adults are perpetually failing to get their full nights sleep. In the short term Sleep Deprivation causes fatigue, cognitive blunting, forgetfulness, reduces our ability to manage our emotions and has a negative impact on our mental health. In the long term it can lay the foundations for heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression and various forms of dementia.

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"Lay Down Your Weapons" (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. Lay Down Your Weapons is a Digital Collage which takes aim at the staggering rates of Gun Violence which occur in the United States. According to the Gun Violence Archive in 2017 to date there have been a total of 48,309 incidents of which 1,571 were unintentional shootings and 564 resulted in the injury or death of a child (aged between 0 - 11 years). Thats without mentioning the almost daily mass shootings including the recent tradgedy in Las Vegas. Still the debate rages on and heavy resistance to increased gun controls persists.

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“Not Just Collateral” (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. Not Just Collateral is a Digital Collage which picks among the rubble of repeated airstrikes on residential areas. From the very first intentional bombing of a civilian population at Guernica in 1937 during the Spanish Civil war, through the London Blitz, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and on to the modern day use of Predator Drones and Precision Guided Munitions in Africa and the Middle East; Innocent people on the gound have been wounded and killed in the destruction wrought by powerful Nation States competing for resources and influence. Collateral Damage is the De-Humanizing euphemism used by military forces to create an emotional distance from the fact that it is Human lives and not just material property which are being destroyed by these acts of aggression. They are Not Just Collateral. . . They are Human.

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"No Direction Home" (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. No Direction Home is a Digital Collage which shivers at the plight of Refugees, Global Displacement and Homelessness. Whether its from Religious Persecution, Conflict, Environmental Catastrophe, Economic Distress or The Housing Crises, from Africa and The Middle East to The Caribbean or on to our own streets in Ireland people are being uprooted from their homes at record levels. As of late 2016 The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has found that there are 65.6 million people who have been displaced from their homes worldwide. This is the largest number ever on record.

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"The Brinksman's Horizon" (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. The Brinksman's Horizon is a Digital Collage which stares at the growing threat of Nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula and the wanton use of threatening, provocative language by A Brinksman in Chief at the United Nations Congress this week. In spite of potent economic sanctions the Regime in North Korea have recently made rapid advancements in both the destructive capactity and range of their nuclear weapons. In just the last few months North Korea claim to have successfully detonated a Thermonuclear Device orders of magnitude more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Whilst more recently they have launched a ballistic missile over Japan casting a terrifying light on the traumas of that Nations recent past and setting the world on edge. Communities on the West Coast of America such as Long Beach and Ventura County are now actively planning for the possability of a Nuclear Strike with "Duck and Cover" style public service announcements re-appearing on television. All the while International tensions are flaring into open hostility with President Trump's warning that he may have no choice but to "Totally Destroy North Korea" at the U.N podium. Gimme Shelter!!! Lets just hope more level heads prevail.

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“A Suffocating Presence” (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series.  A Suffocating Presence is a Digital Collage unmasking the blight of Air Pollution in our industrialized world. According to the World Health Organization Air Pollution is one of the worlds leading preventable causes of death. Air Pollution takes a toll of almost 7 million lives a year worldwide. Contributing to the development of non-communicable respiratory diseases, ischemic heart disease and increased vulnerability to secondary infections. In some of our worlds more industrialized and densely populated cities, exercising outside for even short periods will now do more harm than good due to the inhalation of fine particulates and industrial emmisions. Time for a break in the country . . .

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"All Tomorrows Weather" (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. All Tomorrows Weather is a Digital Collage which visualises the link between the Coal Burning and Mining activities we carry out on or underground and the resulting consequences for our Skies. As a result of carbon emissions our atmosphere is becoming warmer. Greater atmospheric temperatures result in a more energetic atmosphere, larger heat differentials from area to area and ultimately stronger winds and more extreme weather formations. Yesterday Hurricane Irma the biggest ever hurricane recorded over the Atlantic began tearing its way through the island communities of the Caribbean on its way to make landfall in Florida by the weekend. It is the second Megastorm to form over the Atlantic in three weeks which is in of itself unprecedented. Climate scientists are fearing this could be the new normal.

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"Exodus From Mother Earth" (2017) - Digital Collage - Anthony D KellyPart of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. Exodus from Mother Earth is a Digital Collage which highlights serious considerations that are being made to jump ship. We are now living in a new Geological era. The Anthropocene is defined as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. We are told that extinction rates are rising, celebrities are dying, the oceans are becoming acidified, genetic diversity is waning and that even the Great Barrier Reef may no longer be salvagable. All the while plans are being made for some of us to to reach Mars for a chance to establish a colony and to begin anew. To see more of the work of Anthony D Kelly please focus your light based image interpreters on: https://www.freeformtrouble.com/blog/

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New Digital Collage - All Dried Up

Part of the Reflections On An Age of Anxiety Series. All Dried Up is a composite Digital Collage which questions the wisdom of the relentless drive towards maximizing fossil fuel extraction through Fracking and other new techniques at a time when profound ecological pressures are raising the specter of Global Warming on our collective horizons. With the expansion of renewable energy technologies coming online, its time for us to shift our focus away from squeezing out every last drop!

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