Forest fires have come to signify a climate in crisis. Yet historically, forest and fire have long, entangled and even productive relationships. Life in Ruins speculates on a life story of forest and fire, and more broadly, human and nature interrelations.
The Great Silence refers to Fermi’s Paradox and the question he posed in 1950 as to why interstellar intelligence has not reached Earth. In Exhalation, Ted Chiang’s short story collection, he compares this silence to that of a graveyard. My painting expands on this analogy, imagining a graveyard that is constructed through our own making.
Forest fires have come to signify a climate in crisis. Yet historically, forest and fire have long, entangled and even productive relationships. Life in Ruins speculates on a life story of forest and fire, and more broadly, human and nature interrelations.
The Great Silence refers to Fermi’s Paradox and the question he posed in 1950 as to why interstellar intelligence has not reached Earth. In Exhalation, Ted Chiang’s short story collection, he compares this silence to that of a graveyard. My painting expands on this analogy, imagining a graveyard that is constructed through our own making.