Arcadia

The story of Arcadia is a 648-line rhyming, narrative poem that explores how our 21C existential crisis of alienation and anxiety has been brought on by the phenomena of mass media, consumerism, and instant gratification that attempt to fill the void of meaning and habit left by organized religions of the 20C. The five-canto poem argues that even though our symptoms are psychological, our problems are philosophical at their root, and so urges us to overcome nihilism by embracing solitude, individuality, self-ownership, beauty, and art. In 2021, Arcadia was illustrated and sold as a work of digital fine art at Christie's New York, where it broke records and became the most expensive poem ever sold at $525,000. In May 2022 the Arcadia digital film had its museum premiere at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, as part of the 'Let's get Digital' exhibition.