Life force

I have been processing events in the world, as has everyone. For the past few months I have found it difficult to post anything. We are lucky that in New Zealand the government’s Covid response was swift and decisive and was supported by our population of 5 million people. The death and devastation caused by the Covid 19 pandemic combined with many governments’ poor response leaves me feeling that the chances of these governments acting - as they pledged - to eliminate carbon emissions to bring global warming below 1.5 degrees are very slim. Now there has never been a better time to redesign the world’s economy in favour of the health and wellbeing of people and the planet rather than GDP and the economic wealth of a few shareholders in corporations.

This calls for a systemic ecological approach to redesigning the economy and civilisation before it unravels completely as we have been warned by 15,000 of the world’s top scientists There are many movements articulating this new story of an ecological civilisation - eg The Circular Economy, Doughnut Economics, Drawdown, Institute for Ecological Civilisation, Forum for the Future and Extinction Rebellion.

I support these movements by making ephemeral art that is intended to express the ecological values we need to adopt for the survival and flourishing of life on Earth.

Life Force, ice sculpture, Wanaka 2020