WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE (2016)
What you are about to see starts with a monument, a wall dedicated to Los Angeles petroleum industry pioneer Charles S. Jones for ‘community beautification’. A narrated video alongside looks at how transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s late nineteenth-century observations of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts are today used by biologist Richard Primark to track the local effects of climate warming. The two-part work contrasts different era’s understandings of environmentalism, grounding the often-abstract scientific rhetoric around climate change in simple observation of everyday change, and the voice of a persistent observer. - Abby Cunnane, Excerpt from Imagine the Present exhibition text. Read Full exhibition text here 
