Artist have always drawn from the environment both for their resources as well as the inspiration used to create. We take resources like clay, wood, metal, fibers and minerals. We work with the characteristics of these materials attempting in enhance them or sometimes just to stay out of the way of their natural beauty. So often we try to use these materials to capture or communicate something of our landscape. That landscape may be something small like a nearby flower, a texture or color. On a wider scale so many poets, painters and photographers have been inspired by natures vast and grand beauties. It is only appropriate that craftsman and artists take a special interest in the impacts of climate change on the world we draw from.
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Above Left: 6" cast soda lime glass bowl
Above Right: detail of this same bowl
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Although it has been years now since I traveled as far North as when I visited Alaska, I have never forgotten the impact of that land and sea scape. I still try in vain to capture memories from just those couple of days spent in the mist of the ice and water of Glacier Bay. Often I consider what the impacts of climate change are to that and other glacier environments around the world.
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For information on how climate change is impacting Glaciers check out these websites:
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10x10" footed sushi plate made of soda lime glass
10x10" footed sushi plate made of soda lime glass-
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