RISE
Rise transforms newspaper and magazine pages about climate change through layers of paint, bringing together text, color, and materiality to explore the perception of an ongoing global reality.
Rise draws from newspaper and magazine articles addressing the ongoing transformations of the global climate. These pages, originally intended for the circulation of information, become the ground for a visual inquiry into how the urgency of these events is perceived.
Layers of paint traverse the printed surface, bringing image and language into close proximity. Fragments of words remain visible beneath the chromatic matter, creating a tension between reading and material presence.
The density of the paint and the intensity of color shift the gaze toward the surface of the news itself, allowing information, gesture and matter to coexist within the same field. In the photographic image, this friction between word and color transforms the journalistic record into a visual experience, inviting the viewer to remain with a reality whose scale often exceeds immediate perception.
