Placing the Blame, Adam Luhar, 2020
My work comments on the narratives art shares. With climate change, which my piece is about, most art depicts it as “killing our planet” which is of course, accurate. But much of it fails to draw the connection between it and corporations. As climate change has increased in severity, so has the money lining executive’s pockets. Much of the art blames society as a whole. Ideally, my art can shift the blame. But how?
The prompt was “Still life”, which’s compressing a moment into just a frame. There are many forms of doing that, like the graph. It shows changing values over time, in this case, the stock price of an oil company, using data from TheMotleyFool in Google Sheets. The graph represents corporations, the guilty party. Or the timelapse / morph, where an object changes across the page. Here, the Earth morphing into a rotten tomato (bought already rotten), represents the destruction of nature due to climate change. Juxtaposing the Earth and the graph lays blame. Rendered in Blender, composed in Photoshop, with textures from SolarSystemScope.