$3,600.00

This is Green. This is Cobalt. This is Sacrifice.

Gillian McConnell
Salt Spring Island, BC

$3,600.00

This is Green. This is Cobalt. This is Sacrifice.

Gillian McConnell
Salt Spring Island, BC

Dimension

48" x 36"

Médium

Acrylic on mat boards screwed to cradled birch panel

Net Zero 2050 belies a hidden agenda to line plutocratic pockets with billions, while the masses foot the bill. Is our blinkered focus on CO2 blinding us to the immense ecological costs of Planned Obsolescence, Big Agriculture, Forever Chemicals, Geoengineering, DEWs and Neverending Wars? These colours represent the costs of cobalt mining for digital and green technology. Nine logo greens camouflage a mine shaft in Iron Oxide earth. A seam of reds carries the hopes, dreams and blood of African generations, collateral damage of capitalist empires. Twenty-seven shades embody their suffering and death—the ultimate sacrifice—for blood minerals. Green=Greed?

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À propos de l'artiste

Gillian McConnell
Salt Spring Island, BC

Gillian McConnell attained a BFA (Hons) from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario (1980). Professors included Carl Heywood, Jennifer Dickson, and Ralph Allen. An interdisciplinary artist, Gillian has been creating thematic work, centred on dichotomy and paradox, since 1997. She co-founded the OXOgraphy conceptual art collective in 2009 and has continued to show OXO pieces since the inaugural exhibition in 2012. Gillian has served as a curator, juror, board member, teacher and picture framer in community arts since 2001, including the launch and growth of the Salt Spring National Art Prize. Residing on Salt Spring Island since 2006, Gillian also frames art, teaches workshops and enjoys writing, music, running and swimming.

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