Planet for Sale

Planet for Sale is a speculative book featuring lino and woodblock prints alongside poems and text focusing on “the tragedy of the commons.” The book imagines a literal planet for sale, in which our shared, or ‘common’, resources are depleted and destroyed by people acting in their own self-interest. The book’s narrator specifically points to a ‘choice’ that was given to and made by people living at a certain time, whose actions and inactions created monstrous outgrowths and scenes of environmental destruction that, while fictional, are perhaps not dissimilar to what many people are experiencing today as the climate crisis worsens.