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My paintings in this series are a personal attempt to raise our collective consciousness about the man made, destructive impact to nature, called Global Warming. Because the truth of this threat lies in many years of earth sciences data and analysis, my paintings’ pictorial images are derived from space-based satellite observations of the earth and the processed space-time imagery, maps of chemical and thermal changes in the land, and in the oceans and atmosphere. Thus, the evidence of subtle changes lies in the seasonal and yearly trends of the whole earth.

My paintings are mixed media abstractions about the transformations of this earth system. Evidence of change in the artwork is made using mapping, diagrams, sequences of changing shapes and colors, and a layering of the paint. The painting surface itself, reveals a history of change.
                     Recommended References on Art and Global Warming
 
Suzi Gablik, The Reenchantment of Art, New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1991.
 
James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency, Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.
 
Richard Heinberg, The Party's Over, oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2003.
 
Richard Heinberg, Power Down, Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World,
Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2003.