Los Angeles-based artist Lucy McRae has created a survival kit for a post-apocalyptic future, designed to be carried on the body as if you were a sherpa.
McRae, who calls herself a body architect, imagines that people might one day react against "the age of the algorithm", by rejecting digital devices and social media platforms.

She suggests that a survival kit for this new future could contain tools that help us slowly adjust to this new reality. They include a mask that, like a phone, closes you off from the real world, plus cushions and mats that offer comfort.
"Rarely do we create something significant without being confronted with the brink of disaster," McRae told Dezeen.
"AI, the environment, automation ? these themes are destabilising our cosy lives. I'm not suggesting we exit and permanently retreat, I'm just trying to question how we navigate our future."
McRae felt the sherpa offered the perfect model for her narrative. These nomadic people, native to the mountainous regions of Nepal and the Himalayas, are known for helping to shepherd people across treacherous terrain.
The artist imagines that, in a post-apocalyptic hunt for independence, anyone could become a sherpa.
"The sherpa gets everyone up the slope, everyday, with no real credit. The average citizen is doing the same, carrying the world on their back day-in day-out, running against the wind, at a time defined by uncertainty and risk," explained McRae.

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