Collage on paper; heat transfers, silk transfers, pen and stitching on a USGS, 7.5 minute topographic map. The text contains information about ponderosa pine ecology, fire terminology, and text from Clarence Dutton's 1882 Canyon Country journal.
Fires
of Change: the art of fire science is an artist/scientist project
that explores how
fire as an ecosystem process is impacted by climate change and societal
development.
Exhibition venues:
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago 2019
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, Idaho & 2 other venues
516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM: through July 2017
University of Arizona Museum of Art: 2016
Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff: 2015
Fires of Change was funded by the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Joint Fire Science Program and organized
by the Flagstaff Arts Council.
writebon@bonniepeterson.com
photo credit: Tom Van Eynde