David Cross, Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus uses financial graphs

to visualise a fusion of financial turbulence

and ecological collapse resulting from

the pursuit of economic growth beyond

ecological limits. The work critically engages

two properties of the financial system that

drive ecological destruction: the abstract

quality of financial data that allows

calculation to dominate over judgment, while

distancing decision makers from the harmful

consequences of their decisions, and the

feedback loops in markets that amplify the

chaotic oscillation between greed and fear.