Habitat 2050 imagines habitats in the future when I may or may not turn 100 depending on fate. The subject of the work considers the impacts of climate change and the consequences of other human activities on the look and feel of the landscape. The small works in the series are predominately paper that suggests the habitats are covered, squandered, cold with just a few places surviving. As the series evolves, wools and silks dominate the surface features, colour comes back suggesting that nature is gaining or humans are managing to listen to the voices of nature and do less harm. Some videos at the bottom of the page “fly over” a few of the pieces and show the 3d nature of the surface terrain. The aerial perspective of these topographic felts emphasizes the geographic nature of the work. The landforms, which I hand mold and shape when the finished felt is wet, are overlain with silk images of highly magnified organisms and natural patterns you would find at the scale of the habitat. This mix up of scales drives awareness of the small features and creatures which are often overlooked. Click an image for more information and to page through. Erlenmeyer Imposters, a series of daring felted lab flasks, celebrate women in science with the same bold imagery as is in the topographies.
