Project3_Cortney

 

Time is perhaps the most crucial element in our understanding of climate disruption in this age of instant gratification. If it’s not happening today we don’t bother to worry, even if disaster looms tomorrow. Ecoartist Aviva Rahmani, whose Blued Trees project combines site-specific art and  music  to  oppose  pipelines,  contends  that  we’re  caught  in  a  paradox;  finding  the  “right  answers” takes time... and we have no time.From  today’s  vantage  point,  it  seems  unreal  that  for  decades  the  Left  (which  is  obviously  where  I  stand)  considered  environmentalism  to  be  “soft  politics.”  Those  who  allegedly  cared  more about the earth and its creatures/creations than about social revolutions were perceived as acting  from  a  kind  of  political  suburbia.  Today,  sparked  by  indisputable  evidence  of  human  agency, the environment is center foreground. It has rightfully become the radical edge, but only if social justice remains at its core.

[Edited by T. J. Demos.The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change]

T. J. Demos, T. J. (2021). The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. (P 46)

Bad Habits by Steve Lacy

For this project, I played around with font, size, and color while timing the text to the song that I had chose.