It is unequivocally clear that humans are impacting our environments at an unforeseeable scale. We require dramatic cultural renewal to provide convincing grounds on which humankind can justify the transition towards a more environmentally optimal society. A Mind's Meadow: Beauty Beyond Suppression, is a science-based art project that alludes to the disassociation of pace and relativity from the epidemic of environmental issues occurring globally and what we experience in our daily lives. Embedded in each constructed image are environmental themes researched while I studied abroad in China, India, and back home in the Pacific Northwest. 

For my medium, I superimposed drawings on photographs to contrast the objectivity of my photography and the subjectivity of environmental themes I sought to illustrate. In a series of over 20 pieces (and growing), my work contextualizes issues of waste, sustainability, urban development, and the intersections between them. From landscape alterations to plastic pollution, these visuals were intended to raise environmental awareness of the complexities of our systems and provoke moral inquiry.

In conjunction with the research that inspired these pieces, “A Mind’s Meadow” served as an experiment to supplement my undergraduate thesis on the effectiveness of sci-art at the University of Washington. I explored the implications of this medium in fostering a more environmentally conscious society by conducting a qualitative analysis of three sci-art case studies to methodologically identify the rhetoric and environmental philosophies present in the field. Read more about my justification for this work and my research findings in “Synthesis”.