Our Expanding Oceans
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
June 25 – November 6, 2011
Preview beginning March 23, 2011
Mary Edna Fraser and Orrin H. Pilkey continue their collaboration with the comprehensive art and science installation, Our Expanding Oceans. Designed to educate about the major elements of global climate change, 60 batiks with accompanying text give an overview of subjects such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, and glacier and sea ice melting. They examine the content of their newest book co-authored by Orrin’s son Keith Pilkey, Global Climate Change: A Primer, Duke University Press, to be published in June.
Thank you Ricky and Steve for such a great installation!
Homage to Hokusai II hangs next to whale bones
From left to right: Core Banks (NC), Self Portrait, Oak Island (NC), and Flying North
From left to right: Oak Island (NC), Flying North, and Homage to Hokusai II
A portion of Global Perception (seen above) is hanging near the gift shop (pictured below). It is an adaptation of Buckminster Fuller’s 1930 Dymaxion Map in which major land masses are their relative size on a world globe without grossly distorting shape.
Truly a spectacularly large artwork, on display is only a small section of the batik sculpture thought to be the largest in the world.
