The Great Acceleration is a photographic series captured on Kunanyi / Mt Wellington, exploring the tension between speed and stillness in the era of climate change. Presented as part of an installation, the work pairs a continuous two-second looped video with a series of still photographs — each image a single, frozen frame extracted from the motion.

These pause-moments invite the viewer to linger, reflect, and resist the relentless momentum of contemporary life. While the video loops in a state of perpetual return, the photographs interrupt it — a gesture toward slowness, toward witnessing. The mountain, a place of ancient stillness and ecological significance, becomes both subject and symbol.

The Great Acceleration speaks to the urgent need for collective pause — to reconsider our pace, our consumption, and our impact — as we navigate the accelerating realities of climate change