Inconvenient Art

Inconvenient Art,   June Steingart Gallery, Laney campus 2006

 

Durga Against the Latest Demon
Krishnakali Chaudhuri
Plastic bags and other plastic found objects, plaster tape, mixed media

Last year the city of Bombay was flooded for more than five days because of plastic bags that clogged the drains.  Cows, goats, pigs, crows-all our natural recyclers of food scraps and garbage are dying in the attempt to eat what is discarded.  Even Mother Ganges, who for her mythological lifetime has constantly renewed herself, can no longer cope with this onslought.

I want to tell you all, people of my country and the world, that of all the demons our goddesses have confronted, plastic is the most pervasive and insidious. She needs our help.

The goddess Durga imparts this message: “Stop using plastic, because we can’t recycle it.”
Her 10 arms help kill the plastic demon to save humanity and the earth.  This project is a prototype for my plan to carry this message to India: to work with an idol maker in India to create and display a goddess who will speak for recycling and against plastic. (She is there now.)

Chaduri Krishnakali (Roke Noir) is from Calcutta, India.  She is a mixed media artist, activist and world traveler. Every year she takes small groups of experience seekers to India-her love, her poetry, her love and her nightmare.

 

Bringing Bats to Berkeley, by Phoebe Ackley and Helen Poole Newman

Running Out, by Dana Rosenfeld

Mission Statement:

“In about 50 years, there will be no fish.”
“In about 25 years, most of reef’s creatures will become extinct” (a recent study by NOAA)
“In less than 6 years, 80 percent of the British Columbia’s pines will be dead.”
And the list goes on and on…

Global warming is a fact. Amazingly, most people are not aware of it. I want to get their attention and bring the facts in the most visual way.

Time is running out. Resources are running out. This hourglass cannot be turned upside down to start things all over.

That is – unless we stop it!

I, myself, was not aware of the severity of the problem until I joined the Eco-Art class. It would be a real shame, if we couldn’t stop global warming just because…”we didn’t know”. We know now, and every one on this planet has to know and act!

Untitled by Paul D'Andrea

Plastic Pacific, by Sally E. Brook