Climate Canary

The series of three drawings on ancient paper, criss-crossed in actinic blue, seems to reproduce the lines of a future construction. In a cloud of lead or on a wall of briquettes, Climate Canary appears. This English expression refers to species that are affected by an environmental hazard before others. They become warnings of a constantly changing world where danger reigns. The canary, walled in or lost in black smoke, was also used in coal mines to detect gas explosions. It is in a way a symptom that our civilization is not doing well…

Graphite, actinic blue grid paper. 23 x 33 cm