"We all depend on the ocean no matter where we live. The ocean affects our climate, feeds us, cures us, gifts us, helps us breath and makes us dream. Five years ago I started, through my art, to document our planet: what we have, what we are about to lose and what we have already lost. I go around the world with an hourglass, one of our most ancient ways of calculating time and a ‘vanity', a skull, an age-old mystical symbol which reminds us that, as mortals, we have a choice to make in life. We can choose between a constructive and positive life and a superficial and vain life. Hence the concept of vanity."
Anne de Carbuccia, a French-American artist, divides her time between Milan and New York. After studying anthropology and art history at Columbia University, she traveled for years to the most extreme places on Earth creating and photographing temporary installations (TimeShrines) that document and preserve the memory of endangered places, animals and cultures. She established the project One Planet One Future and the Time Shrine Foundation, which use the artistic photographs taken on her expeditions to raise awareness of human-caused threats to the environment and the planet and to promote sustainable behaviors and lifestyles. Her work has been exhibited in museums and public institutions in Europe and America and is part of several private collections.
