RISING TIDE: SINKING EARTH
Global warming is creating havoc throughout the world. Our oceans are warming and expanding causing an increase in hurricanes, tsunamis, tornados, flooding and soil erosion.
This project, Rising Tide: Sinking Earth, focuses on locations throughout the world that are experiencing the effects of coastal soil erosion due to climate change. In 2018 and 2019, I travelled to the Florida Keys, Chesapeake Bay, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and Bangladesh to document the dire effects of rising tide on coastal communities.
The ocean is at once majestic and devastating. These images reflect the beauty and the fury of our Earth’s waters.
All Images: 2018-2019
INSTALLATION
Rising Tide: Sinking Earth (Installation, 2021) focuses on the dire effects of rising tide on the disparate coastal communities of the Florida Keys, Chesapeake Bay, the Pacific Islands of Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, and Bangladesh. I travelled to each of these communities, filmed interviews with the local people, photographed the area and collected debris that had washed ashore.
This mixed-media installation consists of assemblages, photographs, poetry and film meant to tell the story of climate related coastal erosion and the people who are most directly affected. While the individuals of these disparate communities are vastly different, they face similar challenges.
