Save The Earth
Artists respond to the climate crisis
Since high school when I was president of the Ecology Club, a club instrumental in initiating community curbside recycling, caring about and for the environment has always been central to who I am. For about ten years beginning in 2008 I was at the center of the anti-fracking movement, balancing three full-time jobs: that of artist, teacher and activist. With deep reflection, I realized all these activities represented different manifestations of my view that as humans we must be connected to the world at large through being connected to our own inner emotional and intellectual cores.
Though lyrical and semi-abstract, my art indirectly relates to my environmentalism. Commercialism has turned our humanity into a deadly pastiche of plastic emotions: We buy to camouflage our alienation, uncontrollably burning fossil fuels that threaten our very existence. By expressing our deepest emotions, my art reflects my core belief that to save life as we know it, we must return to our spiritual centers where we value our fellow human beings, and discover just how much our own needs flow with the ecological life forces of the planet."
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