Zaria Forman: Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth
زاريا فورمان: رسومات تُظهر قوةَ و ضعفَ كوكب الأرض.
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of climate change through my work.
بالإستعجالية التي يفرضها التغير المناخي
to the capture the unfolding story
لإلتقاط القصة المتجلية
the subsequent rising seas.
إرتفاع منسوب المياه الناتج عنه.
the icy coast of Greenland
but equally endangered
لكن مهددتين على حد سواء
of transition, turbulence
have the chance to visit.
as opposed to the devastation.
of these landscapes,
جَلاَل هذه المناظر الطبيعية
to protect and preserve them.
that we take action
أننا نبادر بالمساهمة
on our emotions above all else.
المشاعر بدل كل شيء.
that art impacts our emotions
سيكون خاليا من الجليد
between two and ten feet
الأرجح بمقدار قدمين إلى ثلاث
to illuminating these projections
لتسليط الضوء على هذه التخمينات
that statistics may not.
with traveling to the places
of the experience and the photographs
like charcoal, but colors.
الشبيهة بالفحم لكنها ملونة
but others call them painting.
بينما يعتبرها الآخرون لوحات
as a "finger painter."
my fingers and palms
من لون و شكل.
the composition as a whole,
through glassy water,
يطفو فوق المياه الزجاجية،
takes me about,
250 hours for something that size.
للوحة بهذا الحجم
I could hold a crayon, really.
أن كنت قادرة على حمل القلم.
و خلال فترة نموي،
all over the house.
remote regions of the earth,
on these adventures.
near the North Pole.
I led my first expedition,
قدت بعتثي الأولى،
up the northwest coast of Greenland.
إلى شمال غرب ساحل جرينلاند.
supposed to lead this trip.
stages of planning,
her body and mind,
never wavered, and I made a promise
و قطعت وعدا
عبر تجربتي في جرينلاند.
with movement and sound
that I experienced.
of the ice is evident,
under the unseasonably warm sun.
وطأة حرارة الشمس غير الموسمية
many of the Inuit communities in Greenland
من مجتمعات الإسكيمو في جرينلاند
of vast areas of sea ice
عن مناطق بحرية متجمدة واسعة
freezing over as they once did.
and harvesting grounds
ستؤول مناطق الزراعة و الصيد
of life and survival.
في جرينلاند
contributing factors to rising sea levels,
في إرتفاع منسوب المياه
I visited the Maldives,
زرت جزر المالديف
in the entire world.
images and inspiration
on the coast of a nation
within this century.
خلال هذا القرن
amidst the melting ice.
of the landscape she loved so much,
and takes on new form.
من الهدايا التي أهدتني أمي
of what we all stand to lose.
of sublime landscapes in flux,
الطبيعية الخلابة و المتغيرة باستمرار.
and inspiring our global community
و مُلهمة للمجتمع العالمي
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Zaria Forman - ArtistZaria Forman uses visual art to connect people with the impact of climate change.
Why you should listen
The inspiration for Zaria Forman's drawings began in early childhood when she traveled with her family throughout several of the world's most remote landscapes, which were the subject of her mother's fine art photography. She was born in South Natick, Massachusetts and currently works and resides in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at the Student Art Centers International in Florence, Italy and received a BS in Studio Arts at Skidmore College in New York. Her works have been in publications such as Juxtapoz Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Huffington Post, and the Smithsonian Magazine.
Recent achievements include participation in Banksy's Dismaland and a solo exhibition at Winston Wächter Fine Art in New York in September and October of 2015. Her drawings have been used in the set design for the Netflix TV series House of Cards.
In August 2012, Forman led Chasing the Light, an expedition sailing up the coast of Greenland, retracing the 1869 journey of American painter William Bradford and documenting the rapidly changing arctic landscape. Continuing to address climate change in her work, Forman traveled multiple times to the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, and arguably the most vulnerable to rising sea levels.
Forman was invited aboard the National Geographic Explorer, traveling to Antarctica as an artist-in-residence in November and December 2015. Her next solo show will take place at Winston Wächter Fine Art’s Seattle location, in February and March of 2017.
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