Nowhere Else to Go by Kathy Nida

 

Nowhere Else to Go

 

Kathy Nida

 

42.25 x 51.5 inches

 

2023

ARTIST STATEMENT

We have climate migration now, as if there’s a place we can go to escape all the bad decisions we’ve made. We can just go to this OTHER planet that’s not affected by ignoring climate change. Except there isn’t another place. I teach science, so I’m constantly reading about climate change, and after 20 years, the story isn’t getting better—and it’s definitely not going away. I started with a protective goddess holding a planet already in danger as people run from the natural disasters we’ve created.

MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES

Commercial and hand-dyed cottons.

Fused appliqué, machine stitched, machine quilted.