ABSTRACT
Landscape depictions from these quests emphasized two elements: exploration, with its rhetoric of heroism, and the perennial exoticism of what was first called 'natural history,' whether of human or other ' specimens. The Anthropocene is an epoch in which human impacts on the earth have increased exponentially through population growth, exploration and attendant species transplantation, industrialization, and resource exploitation. The Anthropocene is an epoch in which human impacts on the earth have increased exponentially through population growth, exploration and attendant species transplantation, industrialization, and resource exploitation. Mary Simon, a national Inuit leader interviewed in Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, makes a point about Southern versus Inuit conceptions of the North that is key to understanding Northern landscape in the Anthropocene. Eco art that re-envisions the North hopes to contribute to ways of thinking and being that will redefine the Anthropocene as an epoch of cooperation rather than exploitation.
