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nature
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The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.
Read more: The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.“Works in Progress” highlights artists across a range of disciplines whose work deals with ecological themes. Considering the particular role that artists play in the climate movement, this column shares their voices and provides a glimpse behind the curtain into…
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Bat Cloud
Read more: Bat CloudA dark cloud hovers above a stand of Eastern cottonwood trees in Tifft Nature Preserve, a 264-acre woodland nature refuge on Lake Erie. But this is no ordinary cloud; it is a high-tech habitat for one of the world’s most…
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Marcela Cantuária: The South American Dream
Read more: Marcela Cantuária: The South American DreamThe work of Marcela Cantuária (b. 1991, Rio de Janeiro; lives in Rio de Janeiro) often portrays female figures who navigate regional, international, and social boundaries. Often highlighting symbols from tarot and astrology as well as themes that reflect political…
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The Wheelbarrow
Read more: The WheelbarrowEmpathy may be the cornerstone of any Global Justice movement, but how do we cultivate the conditions for empathy to thrive? The wheelbarrow symbolises something universally useful, practical and pleasingly straightforward. A space to deliver things in an efficient and…
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Fall in Love With Nature
Read more: Fall in Love With NatureWe set up a gazebo and table in a public park. The gazebo had two notice boards in the shape of trees where reflections were encouraged. We had a sign with the name of the action “Fall in Love With…
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The Universe in Verse
Read more: The Universe in Verse“The real wealth of the Nation,” marine biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote in her courageous 1953 protest letter, “lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot…
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Notice Nature
Read more: Notice NatureNotice Nature was a public engagement action undertaken by participants in the Erasmus+ funded training ‘Creativity and Change: Empathy 2 Action – nurturing response-able global citizens’ which took place in Cork from 8th – 13th April 2017. The team members…