Land Forest Water Animals You and I (Blue: 1979 & 2050)

Diptych: 14"x 10" (each), not framed
Mineral pigment on Arches paper, 2021 by Naoe Suzuki. Naoe was most recently officially at BMC in 2018, but occasionally sneaks in to commune, dance and swim across Eagle Lake.

The font I use in this work is called the Climate Crisis Font developed by the Nordic’s largest newspaper Helsinging Sanomat. The font’s weight responds to NSIDC’s (National Snow and Ice Data Center) Arctic sea ice data from 1979 to 2019 and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC's) prediction all the way to 2050. One can visually get a sense of how much the ice has been melting and how much it is expected to melt in the future based on current forecasts. One on the left is the 1979 font, and one on the right is the 2050 font. We can see where we are heading. Now is the time to act to save our planet. Protect what we love and need.

Image Descriptions: 

1. Diptych. Words in drawing. Land Forest Water Animals You and I in white against blue background. Left drawing shows font that is thick and readable. Right drawing shows font that lost the thickness and start to become illegible. 
2. Detail. Words written with font using the 1979 data. Font is thick and readable.
3. Detail. Words written with font using the 2050 prediction. Font is thin and becoming illegible."

• Name : Naoe Suzuki