For 50 years, the Santa-Cruz-based artists the Harrisons have been making art about ecosystems and climate change. They spoke Saturday at the KALA Institute in Berkeley to a gathering of artists and art lovers about their current exhibit at KALA.
In 2010, we look at it and think of Google maps and how we are now able to visualize environmental changes, but in their day, there was hardly anyone doing it. And even today, it's great to see how the Tibetan plateau looks - in a giant photo - and try to understand what it will mean when all those glaciers melt down, depriving Asia of most of its water supply. Seeing it in the spaciousness (both physical and emotional and mental space) of a gallery lets us focus and see more clearly.
It's time to learn all we can about their work and carry it forward.
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