Environmental sustainability in art brings awareness of around the production of art works. I have used sustainable production methods where I could when producing this work - doing my workbook on the internet, to reduce paper use, using recycled paper for the Anthotypes, using organic berries etc for the emulsions, using recycled frames and using the sun to expose my images, as opposed to using an electricity source. As environmental sustainability is more important now than ever in this world, I am interested in how this value can be brought into all areas in life, including art. As there is always more than one way to do something.
Nature is unpredictable. The way that some of the Anthotypes are blurrier than others, and different colours etc reflects this, especially as it is the nature of the raspberry juice and sun, that causes it to be like that. It would be very hard to have complete control over the output, with this process.
Anthotypes will not last for long (they fade eventually depending on how much sun light they are exposed to). The picture often comes out blurry and uneven. The image captured on the paper therefore is limited and fragile. These are important aspects of my work, as they reflect many things in nature today, like ecosystems that are threatened by global warming. If one slight thing is changed, like temperature, it can mean death for a species, making them very fragile. As we use more oil and cut down more trees, life on earth will slowly fade away, in till there is nothing, as will the Anthotypes as the sun and time fades them.
Change is inevitable. The world will change without our help. Humans can't help that, but we do have choices. We have a responsibility to this planet, the other species we share it with and future generations to make choices to be environmentally sustainable.
Anthotypes will not last for long (they fade eventually depending on how much sun light they are exposed to). The picture often comes out blurry and uneven. The image captured on the paper therefore is limited and fragile. These are important aspects of my work, as they reflect many things in nature today, like ecosystems that are threatened by global warming. If one slight thing is changed, like temperature, it can mean death for a species, making them very fragile. As we use more oil and cut down more trees, life on earth will slowly fade away, in till there is nothing, as will the Anthotypes as the sun and time fades them.
Change is inevitable. The world will change without our help. Humans can't help that, but we do have choices. We have a responsibility to this planet, the other species we share it with and future generations to make choices to be environmentally sustainable.
“Sustainability presents a far reaching challenge to society and raises important issues for contemporary art. Responding to the broad dilemma of ‘how to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’” (Fowkes & Fowkes, 2006).
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