"Awareness of our highly destructive pollution levels has been key to our becoming more environmentally responsible. When Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on climate change (appropriately named An Inconvenient Truth) was released, it alerted millions of people to a potential man-made catastrophe - global warming. The message was quite apocalyptic, yet it helped create a positive change in people's attitudes toward the environment, increasing recycling and decreasing pollution.
So the truth is often painful, but less painful than ignoring it. It may seem preferable in the short term to be overconfident (whether that relates to phenomena such as health and global warming or to our own abilities), but ultimately, being aware of our own limitations - and, in particular, our defects - can help us reverse and combat their effects."
- from Confidence, by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Florida talisman
Abracadabra (for Florida)
gypsum board
gypsum boar
gypsum boa
gypsum bo
gypsum b
gypsum_
gypsum
gypsu
gyps
gyp
gy
g
hydrogen peroxide
hydrogen peroxid
hydrogen peroxi
hydrogen perox
hydrogen pero
hydrogen per
hydrogen pe
hydrogen p
hydrogen_
hydrogen
hydroge
hydrog
hydro
hydr
hyd
hy
h
kpeng.pdf
kpeng.pd
kpeng.p
kpeng.
kpeng
kpen
kpe
kp
k
silt
sil
si
s
stone washed jeans
stone washed jean
stone washed jea
stone washed je
stone washed j
stone washed_
stone washed
stone washe
stone wash
stone was
stone wa
stone w
stone_
stone
ston
sto
st
s
heat lightning
heat lightnin
heat lightni
heat lightn
heat light
heat ligh
heat lig
heat li
heat l
heat_
heat
hea
he
h
h
Monday, November 24, 2014
Window Proposal
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Witch's Brew (Milk Lake Glacier) [proposal mock-up]
Witch’s Brew (Milk Lake Glacier)
for Window, Asheville, NC
“When
President Taft created Glacier National Park in 1910, it was home to an
estimated 150 glaciers. Since then the number has decreased to fewer than 30,
and most of those remaining have shrunk in area by two-thirds.”[1]
In an effort to neutralize fears caused by
global warming threats, society creates fictions designed to exorcise, to
relieve, or to ignore the anxiety caused by these fears. The novel The
Road, the movie Interstellar, and the television series The
Walking Dead are recent examples of such narratives, where the arc of
the apocalyptic story is designed to lead the audience to solace. Threat is
avoided in each instance because it is created and resolved within a short time
frame. This gives the readers/viewers only a glancing and safely disengaged
non-encounter with fear and, in the end, leaves them with the feeling of
reprieve.
Witch’s Brew (Milk Lake Glacier) presents
a threat in the form of a specter, which resembles both the No Fear logo and a
jack-o-lantern. However, this apparition does not bring reprieve; it becomes a
harbinger for the real future of our planet.
The build-up of greenhouse gasses since the
industrial revolution (circa 1760) has heavily contributed to the retreat and
extinction of glaciers worldwide.[2]
The Milk Lake Glacier, of Washington’s Cascade Mountain range, disappeared some
time between 1988 and 1995. The appropriated photograph in Witch’s Brew (Milk Lake Glacier) was taken during Milk Lake Glacier’s
retreat. The combination of the red tint, timeworn print, and layered graphic
presents this glacier as a harrowing example, a specter, of climate change.
The final piece for Window Contemporary will
utilize a re-photographed image of the Milk Lake Glacier. In enlargement,
artifacts from printing process will be present in the image. As “photography
is the inventory of mortality,”[3]
this places the glacier further in the (dead) past.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
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