Unit 5: Conscious Art (1ère AMC)

Art + Sustainability 

The document under study is an article from a website entitled “Incandescent Cloud”, published in 2014. It deals with an artwork entitled “Cloud art” created by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett. They are Canadian from Calgary. They exhibited their piece of art in Singapore.

To create their artwork, they used sustainable, recycled materials such as burnt out light bulbs and scrapyard steel. 

Through their artwork, the artists want to denounce the negative impacts of humans on the climate and how it affects climate change. 

They feel legitimate as artists to spread their message because they have a different perspective on the world from ordinary people. Hence/therefore, their goal is to wake people up by making them aware of the circumstances and encourage them to change their mindsets and habits.

This artwork illustrates climate change because it is a mix of nature and human inventions. We can see how nature is impacted by pollution created through humans’ actions as the light bulbs become a cloud. Besides, the fact that people can interact with it by switching the light bulbs on and off can help them to understand their impact on the climate individually and collectively.

To conclude, this artwork promotes sustainability and inspire positive action because it was created with recycled light bulbs and it inspires positive action because people can understand the message and react to it as they can manipulate the sculpture. 

Homework: Learn the lesson.