Making Climate Change Visible
The artist was drawn to the Amazon after the record-breaking fires there in summer 2019, the same year Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro came to office promising to exploit the region. The fires are used to clear land, and deforestation reached an 11-year high that year. Mosse said he decided to undertake the project because he wanted to attempt to make climate change visible. Deforestation, he noted, is a process that occurs over a number of years and its effects are not easy to show.
“The rainforest’s destruction occurs all around, across several countries, willfully carried out by millions of people,” Mosse said. “It’s certainly visible, but processes that occur to the land itself can be very difficult to describe.”
