Images from Data
We understand our changing environment through both the use of our senses in observation, and scientific data that is compiled over time. While data might include simple observational material, to be truly useful in addressing the larger issues of climate change data must be combined with factors that require rigorous scientific instruments and analysis. In this series, we go beyond simple graphing of these variables to create enticing artworks that interweave the best practices of expressionist (techspressionist) art and scientific data. We do this to combine variables in different ways, so that viewer can more intuitively feel the complexity of our world.
Our imagery is both sensual and informative, enticing both scientists, visual thinkers, and the general public to contemplate how an environment changes over the course of a single year, from February 2022 to February 2023. It is constructed from the sampling of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, an important Marine estuary that is vital to Rhode Island fishing and recreation, and also indicative of the health of the ocean in general.
All of the images include graphs of temperature as the primary variable that all viewers have personally observed While as individuals we might not keep an accurate record of temperature changes, when we touch the ocean water in the winter we know that it feels colder than the ocean water at the end of the summer We experience both the moment and over time gain first hand experience, and we know that people who ignore this observational data by swimming in the ocean too early in the season put themselves at risk.
