The arts play a vital role in calling attention to the special nature of our planet — and our species. Here’s one example that I posted on Twitter (and then on Dot Earth) today but is also worth sharing here:
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Here’s the description of Molloy’s method from his 500px page:
396 photos merged into one image using the lighten blending mode in Photoshop. I think this one pretty much covers the color spectrum of sunsets, lacking only the darker reds. I can’t get enough of this technique!
To your eye, what photography and art best captures the human-planet relationship?
Check out our “watersheducation” Web site watershedcairns.com
Water Marked with Art
Art makes the invisible—visible. The strongest art engages a person’s emotions and becomes a part of his/her memory and understanding of the world. Watershed Cairns aims to create a “Guernica” for fresh water with a series of 100 images of largely unseen water in urban, suburban, and rural Missouri and Illinois. Joshua Rowan and Libby Reuter use glass sculptures, or Cairns, to mark the watershed in metro St. Louis with photographic images. Exhibited as outdoor banners at community festivals, and as fine-art images at public venues— Watershed Cairns will reach a large non-art-gallery-going public.
Seduced by the luminous images, viewers will be motivated to locate the Cairn sites. They can either use the image’s GIS coordinates or street address to travel to the site, or they can find the site on a map accompanying the exhibit at events or on an interactive atlas (in development) at watershedcairns.com. Locating the image sites near their homes will help people visualize their own connection to the great Mississippi River watershed. As a result of seeing Watershed Cairns, viewers’ understanding of the region will include the concept of the region’s water resources as bonds, not boundaries or barriers.