The Mother of All: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature is an experience set in the future of the Anthropocene, where the heightened loss of natural environment and resource suggests that a ceremony of renewal, such as those found around Persian New Year, can be adapted to this context to address the critical need for survival and a connection back to nature- a new nature. This new nature of scarcity, perpetuated by industrialization fossil fuel reliance, and climate change, is characterized as such through artifacts of war technological advancement, and deforestation. Participants jump over fire to cleanse themselves.
