Colors of Melting Glaciers

Sharon Carvalho

40.5 x 32 inches

2018

ARTIST STATEMENT

Colors of Melting Glaciers is second in a series of works providing a visual narrative to accelerating environmental damage. Glaciers are 10 percent of all land area and are melting at a rate that makes them critical signs for climate change. For example, glaciers in the Cascades have shrunk by about 50 percent since 1900. Worse yet, as global glacial melt continues, sea level rise could reach 230 feet. The chilled waters from glacial melt will do nothing to mitigate warming ocean water. That means not only more frequent and severe hurricanes but also decimation of marine life, including coral reefs—all of which will result in limiting major food supplies for the world.

MATERIALS

Commercial and personally designed and printed fabrics, rice paper, cottons, sateen, linen, muslin

GUIDE BY CELL NUMBER

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