Artist Linda Briskin with her work Reclamation
A photo collage printed on vinyl
36 x 50 inches
Linda Briskin © 2019
To add to the drama of the piece
Linda placed rusting found objects
on the mantel beneath her work.
The Four Seasons in Climate Change Crisis, on now at the Heliconian
Club, is both a beautiful and disturbing exhibition. Whether the artists
are painting or photographing the beauty they don't want to lose, or the
environmental issues at hand, the work is both dramatic and moving.
Linda Briskin's Reclamation -- a photo collage -- depicts
a commentary on how we are destroying the planet, and
an element of hope based on the earth's determination
to continue despite our excessive efforts to destroy it
through our habit of neglect.
As Linda explains, this is "a collage constructed from
more than 30 photographs, many of which were taken at
a car dump on Cayman Brac, a small coral island off
Grand Cayman." She adds, "the geometry, textures and
colours of junked cars and rusted metal have their own
strange and grotesque beauty. The green vines weaving
their way around and through the detritus are a reminder
of the earth's resilience and its capacity to regenerate."
In part Linda uses the vines as a symbol of the hope
that we as part of the growing and changing life of
humanity, will change our habits and grow new
ways of being conscious of and caring for our planet.
Linda leaves us with this heartening fact. "Every year
around 27 million cars around the world that reach the end
of their useful life are recovered for recycling. Over
25 million tons of material is recycled from old vehicles."
The collage Reclamation is powerful, and has the strange
beauty Linda describes. To see more of Linda's work,
check out her website here.
Have a thinking about the planet day.
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