My conversation with climate artist Diane Burko has just been posted on Creative Disturbance, a podcasting platform for dialogue among artists and scientists on sustainability and environmental issues. We’re happy to join others on their Art & Earth Sciences channel, shining different lights on urgent issues relating to climate change—especially this week, as the international community gathers in Paris with the goal of reaching a universal agreement to slow global warming.
Here’s the link:
http://creativedisturbance.org/podcast/climate-artist-diane-burko-with-writer-miriam-seidel-eng/
In the podcast, we talk about how Diane made the transition from painter of large-scale landscapes to an artist/advocate who has traveled to the Arctic and Antarctic, witnessing and documenting the loss of glaciers; and how she tries to convey the scale of climate change through her paintings and photographs, making her work a kind of bridge between scientists and the rest of us. In this painting, for instance, she has overlaid a sky-view image of the Eagle Glacier in Alaska with recession lines, brightly marking the retreat of the ice over 30-some years.
For more about Diane and her work:
What an interesting artist and a compelling point of view. I love how she brings science into her art to make a powerful, creative statement. Thanks, Miriam!
Fascinating!
Thanks, Leila — spoken by another fascinating artist. I’m thinking you aerial-view work has something in common with Diane’s, yes?
Nice Interview, Miriam. I enjoyed learning more in depth about the range of Diane’s work.
Thanks, Peter!
Nice interview!
Thanks! We both enjoyed having the chance to talk about these things!