Double sided collage about climate anxiety💥

I helped organize a screening of Climate in Therapy at my school (TATI) where climate scientists did group therapy.

I made this art while watching to process the film and my own feelings. I chose the box from anti-nausea ginger for the base because I was thinking about how on the surface (represented by the outside of the box, image 1), I try to cover or lessen my climate anxiety and one way that I reduce my anxiety symptoms in general, is with ginger. Then I added collaged words that relate to those surface level feelings and trying to minimize it.

On the inside/underside of the box is collaged words with all of my deeper feelings that are more hidden and where they come from in regards to climate anxiety.

While these images show the white and green box deconstructed and laid flat, it can also be put back together and then the deeper feelings are even more difficult to access.

#collage #upcycledart #climatechange #climateanxiety #climateaction

"Papa, look! The climate is changing, the sea level is rising, we are drowning!"

But the father, who still understands the laws of nature and the scale of the ocean, looks calmly at the horizon and says:

"No, son. That is not a rising sea level. That is simply the swell."

Read on: https://library.profpeter.my/paper-trails/mastodon-short/climate-change-or

#Perspective #Resilience #ClimateAnxiety #Philosophy #SocialCommentary #Satire