A DARK SNOW IS COMING...
The starting point for this exhibition is a series of snowscapes taken during recent heavy snow fall around the Snowy Mountains area. I intended to publish them as is - however, one thing I noticed at the time was that the further one got from isolation of the pristine snowfall and the nearer to the resorts, hostels, cafes and pubs of human habitation: the less stunning white the snow. The more dug up by feet, skis and snowboards and the more tainted by emissions, black in certain places: behind cafes, pubs and other hostelries. Ironically spoiling the very vistas people go there for.
It occurred to me that this is a common bond that ties humanity together wherever they are – a love of nature, paradoxically combined with the less positive bond of global climate change, and bespoiling of that nature. Whilst nature prevails for now it is inevitably becoming something different, less pure.
Therefore, I reversed out the images to turn the bright snow whites to black and grey; an extreme mirroring of that experience in The Snowies, and perhaps a glimpse of a future where humans have destroyed the very nature they claim to love so much.
These are shown alongside the original images for contrast.
As I said this is a starting point – leading up to and throughout the exhibition I am reaching out to include the ACT community and local environmental groups. Attendees and online visitors are encouraged to submit their own images of the deadly impact of climate change on Canberra and its surrounds, via our email: [email protected]. Creativity is encouraged and may be in the form of visual arts, poetry, design works etc.
Prize for the top Community Choice based on public votes.
Please include your name, artwork title and suburb, with Dark Snow in the message header.
It occurred to me that this is a common bond that ties humanity together wherever they are – a love of nature, paradoxically combined with the less positive bond of global climate change, and bespoiling of that nature. Whilst nature prevails for now it is inevitably becoming something different, less pure.
Therefore, I reversed out the images to turn the bright snow whites to black and grey; an extreme mirroring of that experience in The Snowies, and perhaps a glimpse of a future where humans have destroyed the very nature they claim to love so much.
These are shown alongside the original images for contrast.
As I said this is a starting point – leading up to and throughout the exhibition I am reaching out to include the ACT community and local environmental groups. Attendees and online visitors are encouraged to submit their own images of the deadly impact of climate change on Canberra and its surrounds, via our email: [email protected]. Creativity is encouraged and may be in the form of visual arts, poetry, design works etc.
Prize for the top Community Choice based on public votes.
Please include your name, artwork title and suburb, with Dark Snow in the message header.