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Each piece in this series references the sayings, “The-Canary-In-The-Coal-Mine” and “The-Elephant-In-The-Room”. Tapped Out is a yellow canary alert regarding the ecojustice issue of our melting glaciers. And the challenge of the choices we must make to remove the fossil-fueled, corporate elephants from the room!
When I was 8 or 9 years old I was the youngest person to sign the ledger at the 12,589-foot summit of Mt Conness in Yosemite National Park. I followed footsteps chopped across its frighteningly steep glacier in awe of its beautiful turquoise glacial lakes a 1,000 feet below.
The future is bleak for Yosemite's glaciers. They have receded 80% in the past 140 years. I have personally seen a dramatic difference in the last 64yrs. Due to Climate Change Conness Glacier (one of California’s largest) is now melting so fast, it will be gone in 5 to 15 years. Scientists recently discovered bedrock protruding from the center of Lyell Glacier, absorbing the sun's rays and accelerating the retreat of the ancient ice sheet. It’s got about 4 years left.
Without the glacier and their silt, sierra lakes will sadly lose their magical turquoise colors. This past year was the hottest on record, and Californians, enduring our worst drought yet, must face a future loss of drinking water for all life in our state. We have counted on a third of our drinking water coming from the Sierra snow pack. This is serious my fellow humans!
Glacial mass changes are considered among the most sensitive indicators of climate change – they are a “canary” for us on planet earth.
I recommend watching the documentary Chasing Ice, reading Naomi Klein’s book, This Changes Everything to further understand the challenges & urgency of the need for us to embrace nonviolent revolutionary change.
I believe in the power of art, democracy and people’s basic need to cooperate. I do not believe that Profit over life is a guide that brings us in balance with nature.
I love working with clay as a base material from the earth, pushing its limits and revealing its innate qualities. I sculpt to explore craft meeting art in an attempt to honestly reveal and inspire discussion of the personal and social issues of people living in the natural world. The challenges and simple pleasures.
Our bodies, the earth and all life on it are primarily composed of water and “clay”. Clay has a memory. It records your fingerprints and all the ways you held it in your hands. Our earth has a memory and responds to our manipulations. My work in clay draws from the knowledge that everything…food, home, clothes, tools, toys all come from the ‘clay’ of the earth and the hope that we will remember/learn to grow, gather, love & consume leaving the smallest fingerprint.
Melting Glaciers = Canary in the Coal Mine for Earth.
Fossil Fuels + Corporate Profit = Elephant in the Room.
Oil + Ice = Climate Change.
When I was 8 or 9 years old I was the youngest person to sign the ledger at the 12,589-foot summit of Mt Conness in Yosemite National Park. I followed footsteps chopped across its frighteningly steep glacier in awe of its beautiful turquoise glacial lakes a 1,000 feet below.
The future is bleak for Yosemite's glaciers. They have receded 80% in the past 140 years. I have personally seen a dramatic difference in the last 64yrs. Due to Climate Change Conness Glacier (one of California’s largest) is now melting so fast, it will be gone in 5 to 15 years. Scientists recently discovered bedrock protruding from the center of Lyell Glacier, absorbing the sun's rays and accelerating the retreat of the ancient ice sheet. It’s got about 4 years left.
Without the glacier and their silt, sierra lakes will sadly lose their magical turquoise colors. This past year was the hottest on record, and Californians, enduring our worst drought yet, must face a future loss of drinking water for all life in our state. We have counted on a third of our drinking water coming from the Sierra snow pack. This is serious my fellow humans!
Glacial mass changes are considered among the most sensitive indicators of climate change – they are a “canary” for us on planet earth.
I recommend watching the documentary Chasing Ice, reading Naomi Klein’s book, This Changes Everything to further understand the challenges & urgency of the need for us to embrace nonviolent revolutionary change.
I believe in the power of art, democracy and people’s basic need to cooperate. I do not believe that Profit over life is a guide that brings us in balance with nature.
I love working with clay as a base material from the earth, pushing its limits and revealing its innate qualities. I sculpt to explore craft meeting art in an attempt to honestly reveal and inspire discussion of the personal and social issues of people living in the natural world. The challenges and simple pleasures.
Our bodies, the earth and all life on it are primarily composed of water and “clay”. Clay has a memory. It records your fingerprints and all the ways you held it in your hands. Our earth has a memory and responds to our manipulations. My work in clay draws from the knowledge that everything…food, home, clothes, tools, toys all come from the ‘clay’ of the earth and the hope that we will remember/learn to grow, gather, love & consume leaving the smallest fingerprint.
Melting Glaciers = Canary in the Coal Mine for Earth.
Fossil Fuels + Corporate Profit = Elephant in the Room.
Oil + Ice = Climate Change.