Environmental Graffiti

Los Angeles After the Apocalypse

The work of David Maisel is haunting in its stark simplicity, despite and because of its expansive breadth of focus. Yet while many of his projects have taken a bird's-eye view of their subject matter, few have seemed as hopelessly desolate as Oblivion. Los Angeles is stripped to its bare bones and burnt to cinder under Maisel's photographic eye – a megalopolis suddenly seen in post-apocalyptic monochrome.

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Kenji Yanobe’s Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic World

The future looks both bleak and bright according to Kenji Yanobe. The artist's visions come to life with a huge, fire-breathing robot Torayan, colourful orange-clad men, children in a very different kind of kindergarten class and many more thought-provoking works. Drawing inspiration from Japanese manga and science fiction, Yanobe offers glimpses into a ruined world that uses the best that human technology can offer to make sense of it all.

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Mutoid Waste Co. MuTATE Britain

A monster of a street art show, cheekily dubbed MuTATE Britain, ran amok through December in London, leaving thousands of gobsmacked visitors in its aftermath. Billed as an “interactive multimedia pile-up”, the work featured at this free, non-corporate extravaganza leapt out like some orgiastic post-apocalyptic cybernetic experiment.

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Tokyo After The Armageddon

Picture this bustling street market, empty of human life, absent of familiar sounds, smells, lights. Crumbling, overgrown, silent. If you can wrap your head around that image, then you've got an idea of what Japanese artist Hisaharu Motoda conveys in his series of Neo-Ruins lithographs: exceptionally detailed, vivid representations of a futuristic, post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where humans are nowhere to be found and nature fights back in a bid to take over our concrete jungles.

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