Celebrating love with a mosaic ampersand
This past fall, a dear friend of mine got married. As is apparently now the custom when friends get married, I made a mosaic for her and her…
Putting it out there: Lessons learned from my first solo show
I have recently opened my first solo show and given my first Artist Talk. For those of you in the Toronto area, you still have lots of time…
Abandon all hope, ye who study climate change: Mosaics about candour, heartbreak, and hope
For anyone even half listening to what scientists are saying about climate change, it’s evident that the picture is pretty bleak. Rising temperatures, thawing permafrost, increasingly acidic oceans,…
Calling out the laggards and obstructionists: A mosaic ode to the Fossil of the Day award
Every year, the world’s nations—well, the 196 countries that are party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—congregate to hammer out global agreements designed to stabilize…
It’s simple chemistry: Ocean acidification is bad news
Whenever we talk about climate change, it’s only natural to focus on what happens up in the atmosphere. But climate change has an evil twin: ocean acidification (also…
Black carbon: When climate change and air pollution collide
I’m guessing you’ve never heard of black carbon, but surely you’re familiar with soot, yes? Well, that’s essentially black carbon. So what does soot / black carbon have…
Places vs. names: Making peace with my lack of interest in nomenclature
Back in high school, I loved science. More specifically, I loved naming and classifying things. Inorganic chemistry nomenclature? Oh baby. Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species? Yes…
It’s “very likely” that communicating about climate change is challenging
Communicating about climate change is tricky, no doubt about it. Not only is it a complicated issue, with plenty of risks and impacts (many of which are quite…
The atmosphere is a giant sponge: A mosaic about precipitation trends
Water. A basic necessity for life. But, as with most other things, climate change is going to mess with water too. In general, wet areas are going to…
The rock fairy
Ever since I was bitten by the rock bug, people have been giving me stones (and, increasingly, rusty bits of metal) to use in my mosaics. Sometimes it’s…
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