Depending on the day you can look at the sky and see a sea of light blue or crawl a radiant sunset to the horizon. However, if you are in a large city area, you can also be met with the characteristic red -brown haze of Smog.
Berlin artist Macarena Ruiz-Tagle is located behind the lively cyanometer and sunset postcards that we have spoken on Colossal (and which are sold out several times in our store). But she also created a third version that was designed for those not so clear days.
The World Health Organization estimates that 99 percent of people On earth, unsafe air breathe, which means that Ruiz-Tagle’s air pollution postcard is perhaps the most suitable for our era of climate catastrophe. Although a stark contrast with the brilliant blues, yellow and oranges from the other two, this design is flooded in light pink and shades of gray to match that of a gloomy, and even dirty atmosphere. Just like the others, the idea is to keep the work to the air and mark the corresponding shade before you drop it in the mail.
The interactive map shifts in meaning, depending on whether the opening reveals a foggy fog or air thick with chemicals, and it is part of a growing movement to follow climate data on a tangible, Grassroots. “The separation of the visual pleasure to be immersed in a cloud of the intoxicating reality of breathing heavily polluted air, the postcard calls both the smog on those world cities and the essential beauty of fog,” writes the artist. “In his enchanting aesthetic ambiguity, the work has a room for contemplation within our troubled atmosphere.”
Find all three postcards in the Colossaland explore more from the work of Ruiz-Tagle Her website.
