Elegy for 2020 / Bryan David Griffith, 2021
Burned wood, stone, ash, charred leaves.
In August and September 2020, massive, fast-moving wildfires destroyed thousands of homes and displaced tens of thousands of people across Oregon, Washington, and California. This installation serves as a memorial for those who lost their lives, a tribute to those who worked tirelessly to prevent a much larger loss of life, and a testament to all who suffered through the flames and emerged on the other side. Each charred leaf commemorates a lost life.
photo captured and accompanying caption transcribed from "Rethinking Fire" exhibit at the World Forestry Center in Portland, OR
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My roommate and I just binged God of War 2018 and Ragnarok, currently playing through the DLC Valhalla. I’m not patient enough for it so my roommate is playing while I’m their hype man!
I got bored while watching them play and turned my roommate and I into God of War characters! I’ll let you guess who’s who.
Let me introduce Oliva and Basil, intrepid explorers from the Celtic pantheon!
That’s all we’ll tell you about their stories for now, keep an eye out for more art if you wanna learn more :]
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Always forget to post things here
Oh and, people on instagram are so stupid, someone commented about “just close your eyes and you’ll be fine” smth like that, I mean dude it’s not how things work
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I officially declare my contribution to Tumblr going forward - I shall be attempting to upload my art here as well >:0
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photos captured and accompanying caption transcribed from Bryan David Griffith's "Rethinking Fire" exhibit at the World Forestry Center in Portland, OR
ARTIST STATEMENT
In 2014, after the Slide Fire threatened my home, I received a small grant to study wildfire with the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. After visiting many fire sites with scientists and firefighters, I came to believe that the root cause of the catastrophic wildfires we are seeing today is a fundamental set of cultural perceptions- perceptions we must re-examine before we can agree on solutions.
In Western culture we tend to view dualities- light and darkness, life and death, forest and fire- as opposing forces in a struggle of good versus evil. We see ourselves as fighting to preserve life and subdue death by taming nature to prevent disasters like wildfire. But what if these dualities are both vital parts of the same whole?
For thousands of years prior to European settlement, fires shaped Western forests. Many native species are adapted to fires and depend on the diversity of habitats they create. But today's forests are more contiguous and less diverse than pre-settlement forests. They are more densely packed with small trees- a legacy of cutting the biggest, most fire-tolerant trees followed by a century of putting fires out. For forests formerly adapted to fire, theses changes combined with years of unburned needles and brush on the ground provide fuel for unnaturally severe, ecosystem-damaging fires during weather extremes, when they are hardest to contain. By trying to eradicate fires, we have made them more lethal. By trying to prevent the death of individual trees, we have put the life of the whole forest at risk.
Now wildfires are coming back with a vengeance, becoming more frequent and extreme with climate change. The fire season in the Northwest is now up to 80 days longer than it was in the 1970s. Meanwhile, residential development has mushroomed in fire-prone areas since the 1990s, making management more difficult, ignitions more likely, and fires more dangerous and expensive to fight.
I investigate these concepts by using fire itself as my medium. I juxtapose soft organic lines and natural edges with geometric forms that convey our desire to control capricious natural processes- often with unintended consequences. The forms of my work compel your eye to complete them.I try to create a charged atmosphere where you spark your own discoveries, sometimes different than mine. Just as different ecosystems have adapted to different types of fire, different communities can find different ways to adapt to fire's inevitable return. Art can provoke questions, but it takes a community to forge solutions.
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Teasertober 13: "Smoke"
WARNING: This one has some blood in it
I had to stare at my sketch for like 15 minutes while figuring out how to layer this
Official art for @the14yearjourney
Prompt 14: Mask, October 28th
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Everything everywhere all at once.
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An abstract image taken a while ago that I’d completely forgotten about! I was inspired by the smoke ring vortex, capturing interesting shapes and patterns.
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"Another breath and I'm up another level..."
Some late for 4/20 art I did the other day of my oc, Akira. I'm new to posting on Tumblr and really proud of this one so I figured it would make a good first post!!
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