STAINED GLASS CLIMATE DATA (2017)

“Stained Glass Climate Data Projection, Middle East is an interactive work which has a focal point of a large square of handmade stained glass portraying climate change data sourced from the [now defunct] website http://www.climatewizard.org. The data shows change in precipitation by 2080 in a region of the Middle East including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Israel and Syria. Darker red squares represent a more significant reduction in rainfall, whilst yellow represents little or no change. Light is projected through the stained glass onto the floor. A chalk-drawn map exactly corresponds to the locations which are signified by the climate data. The deep red light filtering onto the Palestine-Jordan border indicates this will see the most drying in the entire region. Viewers activate the map by blocking out the competing light from a nearby source. The audience walk over the map, explore the interaction between the chalk drawing and the projected light, and take selfies through the glass. At different paces, and through different routes, viewers discover how climate change projections map onto an already vulnerable and tumultuous political geography.” - Richard Bright, Interalia Magazine, 32 (April 2017)