I read a speech by the author David Foster Wallace which talked about how real freedom is the opposite of “unconsciousness, the default-setting, the ‘rat race’ — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing”, I decided to document the rat race travelling by train to work in Sydney and their loss of existential freedom.

Our seas are dying. 90% of the world’s fisheries are over-harvested and are in decline. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is estimated to be between 700,000 to 15,000,000 square km.

The scale of this tragedy is beyond our comprehension so our response is inadequate.