This is my piece for Challenge 7 - a smaller version of my Climate Change series – the original
four Climate Change quilts were one metre square each.
I have taken the four traditional elements – Earth, Water, Air
and Fire – to illustrate the problems we are facing with climate change. The
sections represent, from top to bottom:
EARTH - large swatches
are being revealed as the ice sheets melt.
WATER – coastlines are being destroyed by sea levels rising.
AIR – pollution makes cities look grey and misty from above.
FIRE – bush and woodland fires become bigger events, and
more unseasonal, due to draught.
The quilt is made in four separate sections, each 40 cm wide
by 20 cm long, which when added up come to the required length of 80 cm. The four pieces are joined at the back, to allow the
quilt to hang as one unit.
I hope that by showing the effects of climate change on our
Earth, people will be encouraged to take action to avoid destruction of our planet
and of our lives on it.
