Illustrations I made a while ago for Climate Illustrated.

During the learning journey »Becoming Climate Artivists«, that was hosted by Climate Illustrated and One Resilient Earth, participants were asked to search their surroundings to find something with a seed in it, bring this back to the group and use it as a starting point to reflect and share a story.

I myself took part in the learning journey and found it a very enriching activity. Though I love gardening it was the first time I reflected deeper about the meaning of seeds, their links to humans and the planet.

The illustrations are made for three of these »Seed Stories«. The first one is about forget-me-not seeds, the second is about an unknown seed, that travelled around the world, and the third is about primrose seeds.

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Climate Anxiety
future fear
breathe, try, again
what can be done
now

Connection
contact, community
reaching-out, holding, communicating
makes us feel loved
together

Poems by Jessica Kashdan-Brown, illustration by me.

Jessica shared these two poems during the learning journey »Becoming Climate Artivists« that was hosted by Climate Illustrated and One Resilient Earth. Climate Illustrated asked me to illustrate the poems for their instagram account.
It was not easy to unite all the facets and emotions of the poems in one single illustration, and it took me a while to get to the final illustration. But I think I am fine with the result.

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Things I made a long time ago and haven’t showed to you yet:

This illustration I made for Climate Illustrated. It illustrates a story by Clara, a young climate activist, who took part in the protests and occupations around Lützerath in January 2023. For those of you who haven’t heard of it: Lützerath was a village in the West of Germany that was demolished by RWE, a big energy company, to expand coal mining in the region. There were many and long-lasting protests, demonstrations and occupations trying to prevent the demolition.

I personally was not taking part in the protests but they were all around me during that time, in the news, in discussions with friends. I was following the news every day, hoping so much for a success, that the village could stay and that the coal would be kept in the ground. Unfortunately the village was demolished in the end, which left many activists exhausted and frustrated – including myself.

I decided I wanted to collect a story about Lützerath for Climate Illustrated. I was lucky and met Clara at a local demonstration, and asked her if she could write down her experiences, thoughts and feelings around the protests. She gladly did. And it was just the next step that I would be the person to illustrate her story. So here is the final illustration.

In the end of her story, Clara writes: »Lützi lives on with us in the form of knowledge, community, shared experiences, and memories.« and I really like these words, they give me hope.

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