"Talk about the Weather" Installation

This site specific piece, as with the majority of my creative projects, highlights the immediate and critical thinking that is needed around the problems we face with global warming. This eloquent statement piece looks at the ignorance and mundane attitudes towards the planet's plight and blind attitude to the importance of water in all its natural places. Inspired by a simple statement I overheard about the rain. "ooh terrible weather today" would be absurd to sub equatorial people whose imminant survival rely on the scarcity of H20. This upside down umbrella work was originally designed in many numbers across an open dried mud cracked field but of course may be sited anywhere and in smaller numbers as the message is the same. The umbrellas are pretty sturdy ones i aquired discarded at a carboot sale. They are the ones used by the stereotypical city business men. The people in power who regard climate change as a myth. The umbrellas site upside down in parralel position and are filled with rain water. A tool that was designed to repell and discard water creates a psychological dislike for it, soliciting a belief that the weather is something bad. The fact that we all talk about the weather and in the wrong context, gives rise to people being bored of talking about it positively., rather than looking into the more important issues in life. I aim to show that in fact tools for collecting water are more important than these negative vehicles of expression that repell them.. The symbolic beauty in the visual context is very satisfying. Summery: "Talk about the weather" aims to reflect the preciousness of H2O. It is a series of 20 upsidedown umbrellas in a field filled with rain water. A contentious view that a negative vehicle of expression may be transformed into something useful and special. An object designed to repell water gives rise to negative thoughts by proxy towards rain. If we shift the paradigm we may alter our consciousness into realizing it is obviously better to utilize rain water than repell it. One umbrella will have 3 yellow floating plastic ducks in it as a reminder of the paradox between 'Gaining through loss'. A cargo ship sank in a storm containing millions of plastic toy ducks. What was described as ecologically damaging to marine life, became the most comprehensive collection of accidental oceanic tidal data research in history..

Installation: Water on Plastic

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 15.7 D in

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