Climate crisis 01 - Limited Edition of 20 Photograph

The hypnotic video loop Climate Crisis 01 (2020) captures a flowering prickly pear transformed by pulsating flashes of artificial radioactive colors. Overlooking an endless seascape, the scene has a narcotic, trance-inducing beauty that trumps its sickly toxicity. We watch it like we stare at our computer screens, reading facts and figures reflecting the perils of the destructive industrial economy that sustains our modern lifestyle, but it seems a distant reality. When a crisis involves the self, all perspective is lost and logic thrown to the wind: Surveys indicate that more than half of smokers diagnosed with lung cancer keep smoking despite knowing their odds of survival would be greater if they stopped. Of course those with the smallest carbon footprint have front-row seats: populations in Africa and India subsisting on increasingly barren lands, often without electricity, are suffering most. In the age of the Teflon mind, we (here) see everything through a screen (sitting in air- conditioned rooms)—using prophylactics like drugs and now masks, even romantic comedies—as alienated from our surroundings and selves as we are from everyone else. Human evolution is the history of survival, and we have cultivated and constructed the terrain to reflect our needs, as if gods. While the planet is shrinking as our collective footprint grows, it was always smaller than we thought. We now know that the eruption of Alaska’s Okmok in 43 BC caused climatic cooling across the globe that led to the demise of both the Roman Republic and the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Sulfate aerosols produced by the volcanic belch altered precipitation patterns and triggered crop failure, famine, and social unrest in the critical wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination, changing the course of Western history. - Cathryn Drake Climate crisis 01 is the first frame of the video climate crisis. the video is here https://vimeo.com/386920216 The super-fast interchange of colours refers to the environmental destruction of climate, seasons, weather. Climate crisis 01, This Giclée Fine Art Print was printed on a lightly textured, bright white, Acid free, 100% cotton fibre, 310 gsm matte Fine Art Paper, with archival, pigmented inks. Edition of 20, signed and numbered. The print comes with its authenticity certificate, rolled in a tube.

Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:20

Size:21.3 W x 15.7 H x 0 D in

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