Reimagining the Climate Crisis is a collection of paintings and drawings that each tell individual stories about connecting with the urgency of the climate crisis, the need for climate hope, the connections between personal and planetary health, and more. This collection is ongoing, but was originally inspired by my Master’s capstone on Art, Peacebuilding and Reimagining the Climate Crisis. Feel free to explore the concepts, related descriptions, and occasional poem behind each piece by clicking directly on the image.
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Description Sneak Peeks
My characters feel the Earth on their tongues. Their scalps grow sprouts, their ears are full of grasses. The destruction of flora is unquestionable to them. To destroy nature is to destroy their own bodies.
The structures are not adorned on her like clothing, but they are also not entirely embedded into her skin. The structures exist with her. This is where I hope to capture my viewer, to evoke a sense that the structures, like bodily appendages, would move with the subject’s movements. I invite the viewer to consider themselves as the subject and imagine structural appendages jutting out of their own bodies, moving with their own movements.
Whether it is accomplished through new ideas of the future, sensory experiences or systems thinking, art has the profound ability to open up new ways of imagining collective change. Art provides a platform for pushing the collective climate imaginary towards consistent recognition of the interdependence between social, economic, cultural, and natural systems. Whether art calls attention to these systems in a literal manner or replicates them via collective engagement, artistic experiences open up a space where knowledge can be formed and reformed based on the inherent connections between human and non-human entities.