Art, Ecology, and Climate: Materials

One of several e-museums devoted to ecological and climatological topics, these artworks have been created out of ecologically interesting materials. All physical objects–including artworks–are made of substances that have environmental histories and through processes that carry impacts for different places, species, and groups of people. Included in this e-museum are objects whose materials and time and/or place of creation are certain, and whose ecological histories bear sustained examination: various woods, metals, animal parts, plant fibers, semi-precious stones, synthetic materials, photographic development processes, and so forth. The goal of this e-museum is to encourage a sideways analytical approach to objects by foregrounding their raw materials and the complex ecosystems and environmental histories bound up with these materials’ extraction, harvesting, processing, and distribution.