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For Wish You Were Here Sharlene Leurig and I invited some of the most visually-talented humans we know are thinking about climate change to lift their voices in a visual song in the form of postcards, exalting beloved places and creatures to the people who may never know them. The collection is meant to presage their passing, to mourn them, to celebrate them while they remain... and, hopefully, to inspire changes of course in day-to-day living and in our policies and practices around fuel, energy, water, food, equity, community, and the other interlocking pieces of the climate upon which we depend for survival. To see the full collection visit a feature on the project in Orion Magazine.
We invite you to contribute your own postcards to the collection – to write to beloved young people and to the elected officials whose actions will have strong effect on those young folks’ futures here on Earth. May your written words come with commitments to leaving our planetary home as habitable and welcoming to those who come after us as we humanly may.
My postcards (image above and two images below) address projected sea level rise and extinction.
My Family’s Favorite Walk (front above, back below), 5.4 x 3.6 inches, Bic ballpoint pens, pencil, micron pen, 2017
It’s [not] A Great Auk, 5 x 7 inches, Bic ballpoint pen, mixed media, 2021
fill-in-the-blank letter – Missing You
fill-in-the-blank letter – Hello from _______!
Valentines, pencil and colored pencil, for Upsodown, New Art Center, Newton, MA, Valentine’s Day 2013