Under this meteor shower of  knowledge, true or fake, Tamaki Kawaguchi paints insects, dressed to enter a post apocalyptic world, observed only from memory. The Japanese respect insects in a high regard, the tenacity of survival is revered as much as their exquisite form. Sometimes kept as pets, insectariums are popular attractions such as Mino Park Museum in Osaka or Tamura's Mushi Mushi Land.

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The Artist was filtered, fading in and out of focus through the surface of a tracing paper cubicle. On this paint was applied to create larger than life butterflies, bees and moths, perhaps,  an ephemeral gesture of resistance this performance was called Painting Day By Day In The Anthropocene.

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Our lives as consumers is part of a forced cycle of production, acquisition and waste, a world that has eclipsed other lifeforms through relentless global dominion. This is the reality we exist in, masked and anonymous the Artist perhaps, attempts to disrupt the narcissism of our current human condition.

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Interviews of all participating Artists were filmed in the back of black Mercedes Limousine and during this Tamaki Kawaguchi revealed "Insects are something we don't understand." and that the work was a kind of refusal or even a challenge to a world of endless stereotypes and consumption. The performance was also an opportunity to listen to the audience , the casual comments and observations on the butterflies and bees that share our world.