FRAGILE EARTH EXHIBIT – OLD LYME, CT

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Last week while on vacation I visited the exhibit "Fragile Earth" at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Very powerful stuff embedded in the art.

 

Courtney Mattison, creator of the exhibit “Underwater Worlds Rise to the Surface,” makes beautiful stoneware and porcelain wall reliefs inspired by the coral reefs, specifically by “bleaching,” the destruction of the reefs due to result of climate change, over-fishing and chemical and plastic pollution. Mattison, who works with the ocean-conservation organization Mission Blue, designs images of ideal coral-reef vegetation and coloration, as well as sculptures of coral reefs wasting away, losing their color, their size and their biodiversity.

 

Read more and view my pictures at: http://iankreer.com/2019/fragile-earth-exhibit-old-lyme-ct/