The title of the exhibition is inspired by the name of a proposed geological age that will distinguish itself to future scientists for the traces left by humanity on the earth. Humans do not appear in these paintings, but each of the objects depicted has been manipulated by human hands or bears the impression of human bodies as though it were a domestic anthropocene.

"Dear Justin, I felt it necessary to write to you about your latest painting, the bed, which fortunately I took a photograph of. For me, for my way of seeing and for the things I look for in art or find without realising I was looking for them, this painting is something of a rarity. It seems to breathe with its own life force, with an internal spasm despite its earthy immobility. It possesses a spirit of its own. I was profoundly touched by it, and am touched when I look at the photograph of it. The tiny shadows cast into small fissures between one brushstroke and another, contributing spontaneously with a mixture of grey and white brushstroke to created folds and the bunched up knots of sheets and pillow, the wonderfully purified perspective and the efficacy and incredible simplicity of the wooden structure, the black background which here does feel necessary, overbearing in its deaf blankness, a small and absolute space from which it is impossible to escape unless in a spiritual form. Perhaps it is here that my senses and my soul, subconsciously, are moved: in your abandoned bed, in the sobriety and solitude of this image I perceive a vibration of energy that is so strong and mysterious because the apparition, apparently, is denied… and I am surprised to find myself recalling pictures from the past, images in my mind, a theme, a sought for representational destination: the empty sepulchre, the Resurrection. And I am profoundly touched and surprised as rub my eyes and realise that no, in reality I am here in this room, standing in front of the bed of my friend Justin."

- Giorgio Casari
painter (website)