Bonnie Peterson’s work has an urgency about it: that of climate crisis. At Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, USA, until 15 October, her work examines geophysical climate statistics, which she embroiders on paper or silk to produce a pictorial language we can all understand. Peterson’s work originated during artist-scientist projects with limnologists at the University of Wisconsin, glaciologists at Yosemite National Park, fire scientists at Northern Arizona University, dendochronologists at University of Arizona and permafrost scientists at the University of Alaska. Data presented as visual art challenges people, regardless of their level of scientific knowledge, to consider the catastrophic climate change our planet is undergoing
. Below, the orange graph shows 120 years of Earth’s ocean levels; today, sea level is 13-20cm higher on average than it was in 1900. The red graph shows atmospheric warming in the Mediterranean Basin (blue) and global (green), concentrating on the pre-industrial period (1880-1899). In the Mediterranean, average annual temperatures are 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than in 1880-1899. The green graph shows 800,000 years of CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere, which comes mainly from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Natural Consequences: The Geoscience Embroideries of Bonnie Peterson is at Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, Illinois, USA, until 15 October.
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