Third Place Winner
From their project Gain-of-Function
These images are from an ongoing project titled Gain-of-Function. The series fuses non-traditional landscape imagery that acts as a backdrop for painted graphs and charts representing data from studies on climate change and its effects on the environment. The landscapes are recognizable, taken from a vantage point that shows larger structures of globalized commerce, energy and natural resources, and industrialization at play in our own backyards. Visual data depicted by dots, lines and complex patterns illustrate climate studies relevant to those environments and speak to phenomena like temperature extremes, drought, wild fires, and much more. The artwork titles are derived from quotes of climate change denials by politicians and leaders from the past decade. They refer to the specific studies or climate issue represented in the images, while also selected for their satirical tone and sometimes tragic and idiotic brutality.
