Its
Just Math, 46" H x 54" W
Mixed media, embroidery,
heat transfers and stitching on silk, velvet and brocade
Twenty artists
and 5 scientists participated in a traveling exhibition, "Paradise
Lost? Artists on Climate Change in the Northwoods," funded by
the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment and the Wisconsin Arts Board
PDF
of Exhibition Catalogue
A graph depicting 400,000
years of Earth's atmospheric CO2 concentration from studies of air
bubbles trapped in glacial ice cores, is embroidered on brocade textiles
and surrounded by stitched map fragments. My photographs from winter
cross country ski explorations and satellite images of the ozone hole
over Antarctica are surrounded by climate modeling equations. A 1914
quotation from the intrepid Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton surrounds
the reassembled map pieces. The final outside gold brocade binding
is printed with text from many climate change studies and documents.
Collection of the College of Lake County, Illinois |