Team Trees Media Portfolio

ARTISTS’ STATEMENT

Working Pieces: Experiential, Visual and Contextual

Our team, Trees, created a portfolio of work on our interpretation of climate change in different forms of media.  Our efforts are to convey the magnitude of climate change and its effects on peoples’ daily lives.  

Our work includes a poster, two videos, and two images.

Our poster is a newspaper that includes many news stories, a minigame, and an obituaries section.  Climate change dominates each section in the newspaper to show the relevance in many different sectors.  For this piece, we chose big headlines to convey significance.  The sections are separated through panels signaling the different tone within each category.  

Our videos were created to inform and share a message.  Our first video is to conduct interviews asking questions about climate issues.  The goal is to ask significant climate change questions in a manner which is funny and lighthearted.  Our other video is one of beauty.  The beauty can be seen in a time lapse of nature doing its thing, on its own time frame.  This video was created to tell a message about the undisturbed beauty of nature.

Our images took on a playful attitude with gameplay incorporated. Our first meme is the SIMS4 game with a climate change bundle.  The image shows where players can select their neighborhood from different regions.  All neighborhoods are affected by various environmental conditions like flooding, drought, and tornadoes due to climate change.  Our other image is an ad for the game called Plants vs. Zombies.  In this meme, the zombies have successfully taken over and polluted Earth.  The zombies are symbols for current day threats to the climate like carbon, toxic waste and consumerism.

Our pieces are intended to be experiential and visual media pieces.  The range of work is intended to reach a wide audience because the threat of climate change is widespread.  Our work was designed to be playful, colorful, and fun as our team commits to environmental action with critical hope.  It also was created with bold text, awkward questions, and serious concerns to note the devastating and inevitable impact from climate change.  

As our pieces are viewed, please consider your impact on the environment.

The Artists,

Alexis Weber, Taya Scraver, Daylona Jackson, Brittany Jansen