In the article, “The Art of Loss”, I learned about Zaria Forman, an artist that uses art as a way of conveying the modern day issue of climate change. She talks about a theory in “behavioral psychology” that says emotions, more than anything else, move us to action. I thought of this concept and found it to be very interesting. People do not see anything for what it is by just blatant statistics, they need to “feel” something. Forman says that by making an art piece like this, she can show people the power of climate change and how it is critically affecting our world.
While doing research for her art piece, she came across a scientist who grew up with an artistic background. He says he “knows the importance of communicating data in a way that antiseptic numbers can’t”. This was really interesting, because even the scientists themselves agree that you cannot influence people through numbers and studies alone, you need to be able to get people to act through sending a message of sorts.
Global warming has become such a big issue. Not only are we harming the animals in the polar ice caps by destroying their habitats, but we are also harming ourselves essentially through rising sea levels. It has gotten so bad that we have almost reached a point of no return where we cannot simply “go back” to the way it was before. All we can really do now is to make sure that the situation we have put ourselves in does not get any worse.
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