So touched Zaria's incrediably enthusiasm & dedication for nature's awesome beauty.
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I consider it my life's mission to convey the urgency of climate change through my work. I've traveled north to the Arctic to the capture the unfolding story of Polar melt, and south to Equator to document the subsequent rising seas. Most recently, I visited the icy coast of Greenland the low-lying islands of the Maldives, connecting two seemingly disparate but equally endangered parts of planet.
My drawing explore moments of transition, turbulence and tranquility in the landscape, allowing viewers to emotionally connect with a place you might never have the chance to visit. I choose to convey the beauty as opposed to the devastation. If you can experience the sublimity of these landscape, perhapes, you'll be inspired to protect and preserve them.
Behavioral psychology tells us tha twe take action and make decisions based on our emotions above all else. And studies have shown that art impacts our emotions more effectively than a scary news report. Experts predict ice-free Arctic summers as early as 2020. And sea levels are likely to rise between two and ten feet by century's end.
I have dedicated my career to illuminating these projections with an accessible medium, one that moves us in a way that statistics may not. My process begins with travelling to the places the forefront of climate change. On-site, I take thousands of photographs. Back in studio, I work from both my memory of the experience and the photographs to create my large-scale compositions. Sometimes over 10 feet wide, I draw with soft pastel, which is dry like charcoal, but colors. I consider my work drawings but others call them painting. I cringe, though, when I'm referred to as a "finger painter". But I don't use any tools and I have always used my fingers and palms to manipulate to pigment on the paper.
Drawing is a form of meditation for me. It quites my mind. I don't perceive what I'm drawing as ice or water. Instead, the image is stripped down to its most basic form of color and shapes. Once a piece is complete, I can finally experience the composition as a whole, as an iceberg floating through glassy water or a wave cresting with foam. On average, a piece this size takes me about, as you can see, ten seconds. Really more like 200 hours, 250 hours for something that size. But I've been drawing ever since I could hold a crayon, really. My mom was a artist, and grwing up, we always had art supplies all over the house. My mother's love of photography propelled her to the most remote regions of the earth, and my family and I were fortunate enough to join and support her on these adventures. We rode camels in Northern Africa and mushed on dog sleds near the North Pole.
In August of 2012, I led my first expedition, taking a group of artists and scholars up the northwest coast of Greenland. My mother was originally supposed to lead this trip. She and I were the early stages of planning, as we had intended to go together, when she fell victim to a brain tumor. The cancer quickly took over her body and mind, and she passed away six months later. During the months of her illness, though, her dedication to expedition never wavered, and I made a promise to carry out the final journey. My mother's passion for the Arctic echoed through mly experience in Greenland, and I felt the power and the fragility of the landscape. The sheer size of iceberts in humbling. The ice fieilds are alive with movement and sound in a way that I never expected.
I expanded the scale of my compositions to give you that some sense of awe that I experienced. Yet, while the grandeur of the ic is evident, so, too, is its vulnerability. From our boat, I could see the ice sweating under unseasonally warm sun. We had a chance to visit many of the Inuit communities in Greenland that now face fuge challenges. The locals spoke to me of vast areas of sea ice are no longer freezing over as they once did. And without ice, their hunting and harvesting grounds are severely diminished, threatening their way of lie and survival.
The melting glaciers in Greenland are one of the largest contributing factor to rising sea levels, which have already begun to drown some of our world's lowest-lying. One year after my trip to Greenland, I visit the Maldives, the lowest and flattest country in the entire world. While I was there, I collected images and inspiration for a new body of work: drawings of waves lapping on the coast of a nation that could be entirely under water within this century."
Devastation events happen every day on scales both global and personal. When I was in Greeland, I scattered my mother's ashes amidst the melting ice. Now she remains a part of the landscape she loved so much, even as it, passes and takes on new form. Among many gifts my mother gave me was the ability to focus on the positive, rather than the negative.
My drawings celebrate the beauty of what we all stand to lose. I hope they can serve as records of sublime landscape in flux, documenting the transition and inspiring our global community to take action for our future.
Vocabulary & Idiom
• fragility |frəˈdʒɪlɪti| n. 脆弱,虛弱
• convey |kənˈveɪ| vt. 運輸, 運送; 表達, 轉達
• Arctic |ˈɑːktɪk| adj. 北極的, 極寒的 n. 北極圈；御寒防水套鞋
• capture |ˈkaptʃə| vt. 俘獲；奪得 n. 戰利品，俘虜；捕獲
• Equator |ɪˈkweɪtə| n. 赤道
• document |ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt| [ with obj. ] n. 文件，公文；文檔；證件 vt. 用文件證明
• subsequent |ˈsʌbsɪkw(ə)nt| adj. 隨後的, 繼…之後的
• seemingly |ˈsiːmɪŋli| adv. 看來似乎, 表面上看
• disparate |ˈdɪsp(ə)rət| adj. (兩種或多種東西)根本不同的, 不能相比較的
• endangered |ɪnˈdeɪndʒəd| adj. 快要絕種的
• explore |ɪkˈsplɔː, ɛkˈsplɔː| vt. 探測；探索；探險 vi. 探測；探險；探索
• turbulence |ˈtəːbjʊl(ə)ns| n. 氣體或水的渦流 ; 動亂,騷亂; 波動 ;(海洋、天氣等的)狂暴
• tranquility |traŋˈkwɪlɪti| n. 平靜;安靜;安寧;平穩;穩定
• landscape |ˈlan(d)skeɪp| n. 風景, 景色; 風景畫, 風景照
• devastation |ˌdɛvəˈsteɪʃn| n. 毀滅;破壞
• sublimity |səbˈlɪmɪti| n. 崇高,莊嚴,氣質高尚
• behavioral |bɪˈheɪvjər(ə)l| adj. 動作的
• psychology |sʌɪˈkɒlədʒi| n. 心理學 ; 心理; 心理特點 => behavioral psychology 行爲心理學
• ice-free adj. 不會冰凍的,不凍的
• between and ~ 片語 在～與～之間
• dedicate |ˈdɛdɪkeɪt| vt. 致力；獻身；題獻 (通常＋ to 致力於～）
• illuminating |ɪˈl(j)uːmɪneɪt| adj. 富於啓發的
• accessible |əkˈsɛsɪb(ə)l| adj. 容易取得的，容易獲得的，容易達到的 ; 可接近的，可進入的；易接近的，易進入的 ; (指人)易見到的，易相處的，平易近人的，可與之打交道的 ;
可理解的，易懂的 ; 易受影響的，易感染的，易受引誘的 <邏輯>可達的，可通的，通達的
• medium |ˈmiːdɪəm| n. 媒介, 手段, 方法, 工具 ; 折中, 中間物 ; 生活條件, 環境 ; 通靈的人 adj. 中等的, 適中的
• forefront |ˈfɔːfrʌnt| n. 最前部 ; 位於最前列；成爲領導力量
• composition |kɒmpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n| n. 創作, 寫作, 作曲 ; 作文, 作品 ; 構圖; 構成, 成分 ; 混合物, 合成物
• pastel |ˈpast(ə)l| adj. 柔和的；彩色蠟筆的，粉蠟筆的 n. 粉蠟筆；粉蠟筆畫
• charcoal |ˈtʃɑːkəʊl| n. 炭, 木炭
• cringe |krɪn(d)ʒ| vi. 奉承；畏縮；阿諛 n. 畏縮；奉承
• palm |pɑːm| n. 手掌, 掌狀物 ; (象徵勝利的)棕櫚葉
• manipulate |məˈnɪpjʊleɪt| vt. 熟練控制[操作]
• pigment |ˈpɪɡm(ə)nt| n. (粉狀)顏料 ; 天然色素
• meditation |mɛdɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n| n. 默想, 默念 ; 沉思, 思考；冥想
• stripped adj. 剝去的 v. 脫衣；把…剪成條狀；剝奪（strip的過去分詞形式）
=> stripped-down 去蕪存菁
英釋 reduced to essentials: a pretty, stripped-down ballad.
• glassy |ˈɡlɑːsi| adj. 像玻璃的；光亮透明的；呆滯的
• cresting |krɛstɪŋ| n. [建]頂飾 v. 在…上加頂飾；位於…的頂上；達到頂點（crest的現在分詞）
• propel |prəˈpɛl| vt. 推進；驅使；驅策；激勵
• tumor |ˈtjuːmə| n. 瘤
• take over 片語 接收；接管
• waver |ˈweɪvə| vi. 搖曳；躊躇；擺動 n. 動搖；躊躇；揮動者
• carry out 片語 擡出去; 拿出去 ; 執行; 貫徹; 進行 ; 完成, 實現
• humbling adj. 令人感到自卑的
• expand |ɪkˈspand, ɛkˈspand| vt. 擴張；使膨脹；詳述 vi. 張開，展開；發展
• awe |ɔː| vt. 使敬畏；使畏怯 n. 敬畏
• grandeur |ˈɡrandjə, ˈɡran(d)ʒə| n. 宏偉, 壯觀, 富麗堂皇
• vulnerability |vʌln(ə)rəˈbɪlɪti| n. 弱點,攻擊
• unseasonal |ʌnˈsiːz(ə)n(ə)l| adj. 非季節性的 => unseasonally warm, 為修飾 warm (adj), 須用副詞 unseasonally
• diminish |dɪˈmɪnɪʃ| vt. 使減少；使變小 vi. 變小；減少，縮小
• glacier |ˈɡlasɪə, ˈɡleɪsɪə| n. 冰河, 冰川
• amidst |əˈmɪdst| prep. 在…當中
• rather ~ than ~ conj. 寧可...也不願,與其...倒不如,而不是
• celebrate |ˈsɛlɪbreɪt| vt. & vi. 慶祝 vt. 頌揚, 贊美, 歌頌
• sublime |səˈblʌɪm| adj. 令人崇敬的；極端的；超羣的；莊嚴的 n. 崇高；頂點 vt. 使…純化；使…升華；使…變高尚 vi. 升華；純化；變高尚
• flux |flʌks| n. 連續的改變;不穩定的狀態
• transition |tranˈzɪʃ(ə)n, trɑːn-, -ˈsɪʃ-| n. 過渡; 轉變; 變遷
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