Cities Underwater
In Cities Underwater, I turn my attention from population and cartographic shifts of the past to the future. I conceived the project to visualize the dramatic loss of land predicted to occur in the next 500 years in areas that some 127 million Americans call home. The adaptation needed to mitigate the impending changes that will affect our life, history and culture is massive. The Cities Underwater work is aimed at keeping this conversation alive and not forgoing it for short-term convenience or gain.
The installation is comprised of sixteen sets of nesting glass cylinders, which represent 16 coastal cities in the United States. Using existing LiDAR data and scientific projections, I show the projected loss of land mass due to sea level rise in Boston, Galveston, Miami Beach, Miami, Mobile, New Orleans, Newark, New York, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Francisco, Savannah, Seattle, St. Petersburg and Tacoma. Each set is accompanied by vinyl cut drawings and animation, which provide additional data.
Visiting Artist Residency Project, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, July 2017.
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