Whitened tumbleweeds hang from the ceiling, shoe soles walk across the walls, and bones lie in heaps on the floor. The first in a series about the environmental crisis.
The earliest humans’ environmental footprint, symbolized by shoe soles, was light; the only means of travel was by foot.
With the invention of the automobile, humans’ environmental footprint became much larger and more damaging.
Invasive species, exemplified by cattle and tumbleweed, crowd out native plants and animals.
A bellwether species: when frogs decline, the environment is failing.
Each held an environmental fact for the visitor to take away.
Cotton uses 25 percent of the world’s pesticides.
Student Center Building, first floor. The third show in the gallery’s installation series, through April 27, 2007.
“All of us are deeply implicated in global warming and the environmental destruction that accelerates every year. As we go about our daily lives, our choices have global consequences that we may not even realize.”