According to philosopher Glenn Albrecht, ‘solastalgia’ is “the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place [...] one loves is under immediate assault...a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home.”
Solastalgia’s central work is a cyclorama depicting an arctic ecosystem out of balance. The 15 ft ring of translucent film is suspended in the middle of the room; its detailed sequential drawings referencing an emakimono scroll (detail, above). Other works include pennants with lacy cut-outs of extinct animals, tiny hand-sculpted figures holding miniature versions of these pennants, and a pyramid of sea urchins, conceived as a monument to ocean acidification.