With this series of work, I was exploring the nature of our response to the climate crisis, and what tools we have as a culture to respond to a crisis that threatens the foundation of all meaning for humans. Spiritual traditions, cultural practices, music and art, can help provide some context and a response to the threat. We don't yet have a set of cultural or spiritual symbols, rituals and traditions to help us understand and cope with the enormous transformation caused by climate change. So this work was in reaction to that observation, and a repurposing of symbols from my own spiritual and cultural and activist traditions in response this new global crisis we face.

 

Clothing is a public signal that a person has made a commitment or is devoted to spiritual transformation. What would people wear who were devoted to the transformation and restoration of the climate. While these costumes started as monk-like robes, they became more like superhero outfits. I imagined everyday people wearing them, a large parade of people, in celebration, accompanied by music, marching through every city and town, reminding us of what must be done, what could be lost, spreading the word of the great transformation that we must undertake to survive.