What is the Color of Hope?

These are a series of free associations between my experience of artmaking and how policy could change to protect the Earth. My focus is on the working landscape I see of how our world works in ways that end in ecocide. What particularly prompted these reflections has been trying to understand relationships between personal behaviors and public repercussions in the face of ecological disaster.

For several years, I argued with the "hope-ists," writers who extolled this, that or the other new solution to mitigate climate change. I argued that most people conflate sentimental nostalgia for an illusory past with a way forward that will "solve it all". I often wrote that we had to move forward from the wreckage of our past by accepting the devastation of our present.