Irreversible Results
Trout Gallery, Dickinson College
"We still talk in terms of conquest. I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves."
- Rachel Carson (Marine Biologist & Author of Silent Spring)
Although this quote is from a CBS program aired in 1963, the significance of it is pertinent now. Our climate is shifting, impacting ecologies of all scales, and we are major contributors to this change. What wonders and curiosities are lost with our changing environment? Will our current geography become something we only remember to share with the future?
The work in this exhibition investigates the phenomenal aspects of the natural world and also responds to our current climate situation. Using different materials, some with inherent meaning and others transformed, the pieces in this exhibition question our human curiosity, empathy, and potential for change.
Image credit: Andy Bale
Trout Gallery, Dickinson College
"We still talk in terms of conquest. I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves."
- Rachel Carson (Marine Biologist & Author of Silent Spring)
Although this quote is from a CBS program aired in 1963, the significance of it is pertinent now. Our climate is shifting, impacting ecologies of all scales, and we are major contributors to this change. What wonders and curiosities are lost with our changing environment? Will our current geography become something we only remember to share with the future?
The work in this exhibition investigates the phenomenal aspects of the natural world and also responds to our current climate situation. Using different materials, some with inherent meaning and others transformed, the pieces in this exhibition question our human curiosity, empathy, and potential for change.
Image credit: Andy Bale