{"id":81,"date":"2022-04-01T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2022-04-25T12:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:57:32","slug":"climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/home\/climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledging a Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In their artworks, Abby and Rebecca Kelleher use feminine figures to comment on the destruction of nature. Abby\u2019s artwork features \u201cDemeter, the goddess of harvest,\u201d who \u201crepresents all that comes with the beauty of nature and how it sustains life.\u201d Looming in the background, \u201cwe see smoke and factories that are destroying all the field crops and harvest that she has flourished.\u201d Kelleher’s artwork also conveys a sense of impending desctruction, showing how “time is running out and Mother Nature is beginning to crumble. Soon there will be nothing but dust if we do not change and adapt.\u201d Similarly, Gianna Green\u2019s poem<\/a> expresses the need to make change soon in order to save our home:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people say the time is now
Truth is, the time to make change
Has always been
For time is running out
To fix the home<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Below, additional artworks and poems address the current destruction of nature and the urgency of making changes before it is too late. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aidan Breakie\u2019s detailed drawing depicts a cityscape where human life appears to continue normally even as \u201ca rising tide isolates a community from the land.\u201d Climate change destroys nature as well as man-made structures like pipes and railroads, which dangle feebly from cliffs. An anonymous poem<\/a> also addresses this tension between the power of nature and the power of industry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, how far man has come
Bridges after bridges
Tunnels through the steepest hills
Miles taken, oceans swum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Stopped the greatest rivers
Cut down the tallest trees
Whatever mother nature delivers
Kill it as if it\u2019s a disease<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ella and Carly Grzeskiewicz use their artworks to address specific issues that contribute to climate change. Ella says, \u201dI drew a combination of many different climate change logos to represent the “death” of our planet due to the uprising in oil usage, industrial use, destruction to our habitats, and inability to recycle.\u201d Grzeskiewicz critiques the profit that companies make from destructive practices like fracking, explaining that \u201cthe earth is being cracked open by a fracking pump, exposing the core of earth which is filled with money\u2026the money also begins to burn with the earth, because without the preservation of the environment any money made from fracking is ultimately useless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A poem<\/a> by Xavier Tavares, \u201cControl,\u201d addresses the frustration of knowing that the ability to combat climate change is in the hands of those with power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commonfolk were blamed for the environmental problems we now face
\u201cOf course you can do something, just bike to work and recycle waste.\u201d
Naive it was to believe those lies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Tavares goes on to note that \u201cwe must vote for someone who cares and is willing to make changes with haste,\u201d acknowledging that individuals cannot combat climate change alone and that large-scale solutions are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cGrowth\u201d  by Ava Malkin \u201cis a depiction of the fight for nature against the cruel dominance of innovation.\u201d Malkin writes, \u201cglobal warming is causing a major decline in the environment; I wanted to show this by placing a dainty flower in the harsh climate of factory life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her haiku<\/a>, \u201cResurrection,\u201d Ashley addresses a similar theme, noting, \u201cthere is destruction all around us, yet nature persists and there is still hope for the planet if we become more aware and take action now.\u201d She writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cutting, burning down
the man-made world on fire yet,
a sapling grows strong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Hope, Holly Talbot, and Jacqueline Rima use their artworks to address the destructiveness of humans. In \u201cStrike the Set,\u201d Hope plays on a phrase used in theater when a set is taken down at the end of a production, pointing to the seemingly inevitable annihilation of nature by humans. Talbot’s and Rima\u2019s drawings of body parts also mourn the impact of humans on the environment. In Talbot\u2019s artwork, \u201cthe human eye watches the earth and sees the pain it is going through as humans create detrimental environmental impacts.\u201d In Rima\u2019s drawing, inspired by a Thomas LeRoy sculpture, she represents how \u201cwe try to fix issues we\u2019ve caused and it leads to even more problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] In their artworks, Abby and Rebecca Kelleher use feminine figures to comment on the destruction of nature. Abby\u2019s artwork features \u201cDemeter, the goddess of harvest,\u201d who \u201crepresents all that comes with the beauty of nature and how it sustains life.\u201d Looming in the background, \u201cwe see smoke and factories that are destroying all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":59,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/375"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/fye-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}