While watching a documentary called "Before The Flood", the opening began with Leonardo Dicaprio narrating about a piece of art that hung above his crib as a child. This painting was called "The Garden of Earthly Delights, painted by Hieronymus Bosch around 1500. The exact date is unknown. However Leo told explained the art that tells a story in three panels.

In the first panel you have Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, inspired by Christian Stories. Human activity is at a minimum and nature prospers peacefully. In the second panel we have Human expansion. The population has grown, people are developing at a fast rate with how they live. In the third panel you have destruction and chaos of the natural world. This almost feels like Bosch could predict the eventual future of the Earth, and that the Anthropocene would eventually become inevitable as long as Humans keep populating. Of course back then in 1500, it wouldn't have been called the Anthropocene.

I feel this piece of work would be hugely valuable to include in my Virtual Reality Space. As an opening to the experience, this could serve as an introduction to the Anthropocene, showing you that ironically we have known about this ideological problem for hundreds of years. I see early ideologies of Capitalism in this painting as well as consumerism and greed. If I start to appropriate other works into my Virtual Reality Space, it would be moral and ethical for me to credit them as apart of the final piece. 

Greenland as a country is mostly just Ice. In this documentary we see Leo talk with Professor Jason Box about how Greenland is losing ice at a dangerous rate. I see them give visual references to give you a sense of how much ice Greenland has lost in the past few years.