An Inconvenient Truth
This artwork is titled An Inconvenient Truth, that more human habitats will be inundated by seawater with melting glaciers. This digital painting depicts a disastrous scene in Manhattan. The connotation of this is if humans don’t take any action to prevent this phenomenon, this scene will come true in the foreseeable future—the work created by digital painting application in an A3 scale paper. Melting glaciers made a deep impression on me regarding the climate crisis. Also， My undergraduate major is Architectural Heritage Conservation, so I hope to use architecture, the most intuitive civilization wealth of human beings, to form the most intuitive contrast effect by depicting the seawater swallowing countless buildings in the future. Most notably, artworks like That’s a lot people (Taylor, 2009) and ICE WATCH (Eliasson, 2018) allow me to learn about what different groups of people are doing in the face of the climate crisis. The former depicts a doomsday scene that will happen in urban and coastal spaces if humanity doesn’t take any action; the latter could engage the public more by touching floating ice and letting citizens feel the speed of melting glaciers in person.