Jill Pelto, American
Increasing Forest Fire Activity, 2015
This piece is taken from a series of works that Pelto is creating to bring awareness to the effects of climate change. In this series, Pelto combines natural scenery with real world scientific data to produce a call for action. Increasing Forest Fire Activity, inspired by intense fires in Washington state in 2015, depicts a forest fire scene, overlapped by a line graph which represents the historical increase in global temperatures. This intersection of art and data allows the audience to draw conclusions about the connection between global warming and wildfires. The inferno becomes more intense as the line climbs higher, further suggesting the same connection. Label by Jackson Schiminger