Flash Flood Photo Credit Don Usner

In 2010 I designed and coordinated EARTH for the international climate change organization 350.org. For this global artwork, I collaborated with diverse artists and communities in over 18 locations globally including Africa, India, Egypt, China, Mexico, Caribbean, European Union and the United States to co-design large land art that illuminates a local climate change challenge or solution. These large scale artworks were then photographed by a moving satellite circumventing the globe. This photo is of the artwork created in Santa Fe, New Mexico created in collaboration with the Santa Fe Art Institute and a wide array of community members who call Santa Fe home. Diverse members of the community dressed in blue to fill the Santa Fe riverbed to illuminate where the river use to flow before climate change radically melted the nearby mountain snowpacks that use to feed and nourish the Santa Fe River. Prior to the creation of the artwork educational workshops were held within the community about the causes of climate change as well as viable solutions. Our metrics for success for this global artwork were not always the visual aesthetics of each artwork, but rather the power of each local artwork to bring together diverse community members to mobilize around a climate change challenge or solution.