Hunterian Gallery
In the Hunterian Gallery, I saw many living styles of human beings and creatures changed by the natural environment and some paintings about landscapes and creatures. So I thought that whether my works could start from the connection between nature, creatures and human beings.
Clouds and sky were favourite subjects for both Cadell and Peploe. The two artists relished the freedom and speed involved in painting out of doors, capturing wind-blown shapes and rapidly changing colours. These experiences were in marked contrast to that of painting carefully arranged still-lifes and interior settings in their Edinburgh studios.
★There are two thinking directions★
★Study the relationship between people and nature in the urban environment of Glasgow. Take more photos around the city and watch the small disturbances in nature.
What I need to do :
👉Take photos around the Glasgow
👉Find interventions of nature
What I need to think :
How can human beings and creatures adapt to Glasgow’s climate?
★Use the season as a starting point for “people and the environment”
(1)Comment on global warming, create my own version of the season by creating a collage of cropped trees to create my own virtual forest.
(2)Express my concept through a series of repetitive still images that become non-compliant with four seasons.
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I want to start with seasons for people and environment. So first, I need to do some research on global warming.
●What Is Global Warming??
Global warming is a term used for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s climate system and its related effects.
Within the earth’s atmosphere, accumulating greenhouse gases like water vapor, carbon dioxide , methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone are the gases within the atmosphere that absorb and emit heat radiation. Increasing or decreasing amounts of greenhouse gases within the atmosphere act to either hold in or release more of the heat from the sun.
According to my survey, global warming is making glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.
According to my survey, global warming is making glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.
●What Does Global Warming cause??
-Temperatures Will Continue to Rise
Because human-induced warming is superimposed on a naturally varying climate, the temperature rise has not been, and will not be, uniform or smooth across the country or over time.
-Frost-free Season and Growing Season will Lengthen
The length of the frost-free season (and the corresponding growing season) has been increasing nationally since the 1980s, with the largest increases occurring in the western United States, affecting ecosystems and agriculture. Across the United States, the growing season is projected to continue to lengthen. In a future in which heat-trapping gas emissions continue to grow, increases of a month or more in the lengths of the frost-free and growing seasons are projected across most of the U.S. by the end of the century, with slightly smaller increases in the northern Great Plains. The largest increases in the frost-free season (more than eight weeks) are projected for the western U.S., particularly in high elevation and coastal areas. The increases will be considerably smaller if heat-trapping gas emissions are reduced.
-More Droughts and Heat Waves
Droughts in the Southwest and heat waves (periods of abnormally hot weather lasting days to weeks) everywhere are projected to become more intense, and cold waves less intense everywhere. Summer temperatures are projected to continue rising, and a reduction of soil moisture, which exacerbates heat waves, is projected for much of the western and central U.S. in summer. By the end of this century, what have been once-in-20-year extreme heat days (one-day events) are projected to occur every two or three years over most of the nation.
-Changes in Precipitation Patterns
Average U.S. precipitation has increased since 1900, but some areas have had increases greater than the national average, and some areas have had decreases. More winter and spring precipitation is projected for the northern United States, and less for the Southwest, over this century. Projections of future climate over the U.S. suggest that the recent trend towards increased heavy precipitation events will continue. This trend is projected to occur even in regions where total precipitation is expected to decrease, such as the Southwest.
-Hurricanes Will Become Stronger and More Intense
The intensity, frequency and duration of North Atlantic hurricanes, as well as the frequency of the strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes, have all increased since the early 1980s. The relative contributions of human and natural causes to these increases are still uncertain. Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm.
-Sea Level Will Rise 1-4 feet by 2100
Global sea level has risen by about 8 inches since reliable record keeping began in 1880. It is projected to rise another 1 to 4 feet by 2100. This is the result of added water from melting land ice and the expansion of seawater as it warms. In the next several decades, storm surges and high tides could combine with sea level rise and land subsidence to further increase flooding in many regions. Sea level rise will continue past 2100 because the oceans take a very long time to respond to warmer conditions at the Earth’s surface. Ocean waters will therefore continue to warm and sea level will continue to rise for many centuries at rates equal to or higher than those of the current century.
This map shows satellite data of changes in sea level rise from 1998 to 2008. The yellow and red colours indicate areas of rising sea level and the green and blue colours show areas of falling sea level. This shows how in some areas sea level will fall, although the majority of regions are facing rising seas. (NASA)
-Arctic Likely to Become Ice-Free
The Arctic Ocean is expected to become essentially ice free in summer before mid-century.
In recent decades, sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been melting faster than it re-freezes in winter. Greenhouse gas forcing is predominantly responsible for the decline in Arctic sea ice extent. A 2007 study found the decline to be “faster than forecasted” by model simulations. However, it was shown in 2017 that these model simulations only get realistic rates of sea ice retreat when they have unrealistically large rates of global warming. The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report concluded that sea ice will continue to decrease in extent, and that there is robust evidence for the downward trend in Arctic summer sea ice extent since 1979.
Temperatures Will Continue to Rise 
Frost-free Season and Growing Season will Lengthen 
More Droughts and Heat Waves 
Changes in Precipitation Patterns 
Hurricanes Will Become Stronger and More Intense 
Sea Level Will Rise 1-4 feet by 2100 
Arctic Likely to Become Ice-Free
A series of photographs of the Grinnell Glacier taken from the summit of Mount Gould in Glacier National Park, Montana, in 1938, 1981, 1998, and 2006 (from left to right). In 1938 the Grinnell Glacier filled the entire area at the bottom of the image. By 2006 it had largely disappeared from this view.
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Because of these climate changes, the environment is no longer the same as before, so what I want to do is the environment in my mind. I will make some collages in the form of collages.
I have found some examples to use as a reference to make the four seasons in my mind.
Comment on global warming, create my own version of the season by creating a collage of cropped trees to create my own virtual forest. I decided to cut into small pieces with the paper tape I collected and then put together the trees, leaves, petals and snowflakes.
Then I used Photoshop to gradually cut out the branches of the woods and move the position of the sun to represent the change in time to make a frame-by-frame animation.
I drew the sun here, its purpose is to show global warming, and as it moves from left to right, the leaves and branches will also decrease, which means that as time goes by, the forest is also reducing because of the global warming.
I used the timeline to make it frame-by-frame. Set some of the leaves to the drop animation, and then remove the few pictures that have gradually disappeared from the tree in a sequence of seconds.
The main purpose of this work is to make people think that when the trees around the small to large environment gradually become worse and less, I hope to reflect on the reasons for the gradual decline of the forest. All activities in human society are inseparable from the natural giving, and we just continue to accept the gifts given to us by nature and not care about nature, and we are constantly destroying it. So when people see the trees and the moving sun in the works, they can think of the passage of time and the demise of nature.
