Erik Kessels, Global Issues, 2025

It all starts with overproduction. Factory machines work tirelessly, day and night, churning out globes in quantities that far exceed any reasonable demand. Workers feed the assembly lines with endless raw materials: more plastic, more paint, more fake earthly wonders, all destined to gather dust in warehouses or clutter the shelves of discount stores. In the frenzy of mass production, the beauty of the globe’s intricate details and its representation of the world’s fragile ecosystems are lost in the rush for quantity over quality. Erik Kessels takes a critical look at globes, once symbols of geographical wonder, now empty, soulless containers spinning in the void of industrial excess.