Art, Ecology, and Climate Bewilderment

One of several e-galleries devoted to ecological and climatological topics, these artworks heighten ecological awareness by estranging their viewers from familiar elements, places, plants, or animals. “Bewilderment” amounts not to a frustrating confusion but to an uncanny experience of habitat: the ordinary become wild. Many works in this gallery rely on abstraction, surreal juxtapositions, or novel vantage points to create bewildering effects. Others depict surprising encounters between human and nonhuman forms. Still others foreground their status as visual objects or as two-dimensional forms in ways that engage other senses and dimensions. We invite you to think critically about the kinds of bewilderment that individual artworks create and what ecological awareness this generates.

More artworks that produce bewildering effects can be found in other Art, Ecology, and Climate E-Museums, including “Atmospheric” and “Entanglement.”