Support our spruce!
Saving our Spruce!
jd slack
Artist's Statement
When the scientists explained that the spruce would not survive here if the climate continues to heat up, I was devastated. What would home be like without the spruce? Look around you: spruce are everywhere.
I imagine (and hope for) a movement of people of all ages, political affiliations, and races (thus the red, black, yellow, and white ladders and supports) working together to halt the human-induced heating up of our world. Here in the Northwoods, the slogan for our efforts could be Support our Spruce!
Biography
jd slack (aka Jennifer Daryl Slack) has a duel
career: one as a pastel artist, and another as Professor of Communication
and Cultural Studies at Michigan Technological University. In
her artwork for this exhibit, these two careers come together.
As a scholar who studies the relationship between culture and
technology, and culture and the environment, she writes about
the power of our perceptions in shaping what we do everyday in
relation to technology and the environment. As an artist, she
paints home: the Northwoods, Isle Royale, the trees, the rocks,
the buildings, and the farm she lives on. With climate change
threatening the integrity of home, she hopes to convey that our
perceptions, our willingness to learn, and our actions matter.