Journey Reluctantly Taken
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Dates2014 - Ongoing
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Author
I don't know how to respond to that
The work I present here, considers human induced climate change. Climate change is validated by the evidence based practice of science which is able to quantify climate change and manifest as numerical data, graphs and projections. I reference climate change research to help me to interpret, visualise and respond to impacts of our changing environmental predicament in my art practice. Research indicates that knowledge and emotional engagement are important factors for social change. It follows that artists, specialists in emotional expression of aesthetic value collaborate with scientists. Art is a cultural activity capable of engaging deep emotions. Emotions in turn, can stimulate the desire to care. Desire once ignited has the power to influence behaviour. This is the only way I know to respond.
How does one visually articulate the feelings that arise in the body - affected by our environment under the influence of climate change - imperilling our very existence? I advance that the most relevant sublime in the twenty first century is of our own doing. Humanity at present stands before nature wondering what on earth we have unleashed. The Earth’s active systems respond to impacts that humans have set in motion and dynamically self-corrects with no regard for its inhabitants. I don't know how to respond to that, - in any other way.
