natural resources
Apr
12
2023
Peter Kuper's four-panel cartoon from April 2023 uses familiar road signs to illustrate climate impacts. The top left shows a penguin beside a cliff-fall warning amid melting ice. The top right depicts lightning and a tornado near a skid sign. Bottom panels show flames surrounding stop and crossing signs on a highway jammed with burning cars. The work responds to ongoing reports of record heat, wildfires and ice loss that spring.
Mar
22
2022
Aug
14
2019
The image depicts a worker in safety gear using a brush to create a canvas showing oil derricks and a large dollar sign. This replaces the surrounding mountain, river and forest scene. The work responds to ongoing debates in August 2019 over expanded drilling and logging on federal lands. Such expansions raised questions about impacts to water quality, fish populations and species including the bald eagle. The visual argument centers on differing perspectives of value in natural areas.
