About the Artist
Confident steps of youth, armed with knowledge and will, filled with determination and life, in a road filled with difficulties, confusion and fear. Steps forward or jumps to the high to surpass all obstacles standing in the road to the future … Holding the torch of knowledge and dreams and climbing the rough mountains, armed with hope, to reach the peak, and infix the torch to lighten the paths of others … So will oil wealth determine the future and fate of youth? Or will their determination and ambition do that? Or both?
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About the Artist
Aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wire. This work serves as a reminder of temporality and decay. It is made of thousands of discarded bottle caps and labels sewn together with copper wire into a monumental hanging. El Anatsui weaves the debris of our consumerism into a glittering cloth worthy of the long tradition of West African textile production.
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His current photographic project began in 2000 as a study of the ecological and cultural diversity of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in all four seasons. His vision has since evolved into a visual exploration of the Arctic ’s connection to larger global issues such as resource wars, global warming, toxic migration and human rights struggles of the indigenous northern communities. The artist writes, “the Gwich’in caribou hunting images embed a tremendous amount of history, philosophy, our treatment of native cultures and our disconnection to food. They are my strongest works to date.”
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Chalmers' work is symbolic of the hierarchical relationship that human beings have to all species, our relationship to nature, and the idea that we think in terms of a lesser species than ourselves as represented by the American cockroach.
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Ichi Ikeda considers water to be a basic human right and the medium which will help deliver our planet safely into the future. As a result, he has dedicated the majority of his prolific career to raising global awareness around water issues and conservation through international conferences, community activism, public performance and interactive WaterArt installations.
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The body is deliberately confused with nature. We are all part of the same as Paredes summons us to the skin of nature, to the actual skin of plants and animals in the process of extinction pointing to the wild voracity of humankind as we move toward the road of less. Paredes transforms herself into the animals.
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Trees and plants are essential to a stable climate. They help remove heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas from the air by storing it in their leaves, wood, roots and soils. But when trees and plants are destroyed, this stored carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, where it contributes to climate change. In fact, deforestation and land use change contributes approximately 20 to 25 percent of the carbon emissions that cause climate change.
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