To Inhabit

As a visual artist who aims to  raise environmental awareness, I am concerned with how art conveys  messages to the viewer. While masters such as Edward Burtynsky and Chris Jordan use straightforward images of catastrophes to incite visceral feelings, I explore different approaches. In To Inhabit, I ask the question “What if?” and provide  visual answers with lenticular prints. 

What if this smoke-spewing coal power plant did not exist in the Arizonan desert? What if a power cut turned a brilliantly illuminated downtown skyline completely dark? What would The Times Square look like if it were submerged underwater due to an 80-foot rise in sea level? 

My lenticular prints answer these questions by allowing the viewer to travel through time. As the viewer shifts their position in front of a print, they see the transition between a Times Square with dry streets, or with Venice-style canals, a bright skyline with thousands of lit windows, or a dark skyline with millions of Milky Way stars and a manhole as a floor piece which becomes flooded as they step over. 

In the past shows, viewers were amazed to discover the magical illusions of lenticular prints. As they shifted positions to unveil the hidden images and occasionally bumped into each other, they also perceived subtle yet profound environmental messages.