Size
35.8” x 47.6”
 
Woven tapestry, 2017. Phenomena Series explores landscapes in crisis due to the environmental effects of increasingly dramatic weather events. Each works consists of two sections, a symbolic landscape that is defined through colour, pattern and stylized imagery paired with a side or lower section containing finely rendered images that represent the results of changing climatic phenomena. Phenomena consists of four tapestries. “Dry” contrasts isolated and dried seeds extracted form a parched infertile landscape; representations of toxic mold and bacterial growth underlie the flooded land in “Wet”; the bones of endangered animals testify to the effects of a warming climate in “Melt” and the understory ecosystem emerges charred and exposed in “Burn.” Each landscape features a grid that draws its colour system from another tapestry in the series and acts to connect the four works and acknowledge the interconnectedness of the causes and results of climatic change.
 

Photo: Janet Dwyer
 

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