The recent Covid-19 global Pandemic virus rudely highlights our global interdependency, nations acting together to prevent spreading, the search for treatments and a vaccine. Science predicts with rapid climate changes an increased frequency of global virus pandemics. The simultaneity of the interdependence of global forces and intimate spaces has been a consistent theme underlying my multi media art practice.
First-hand observations of climate warming impacts during my Arctic Circle tall ship artist residency in Svalbard Archipelago was nearly a year ago in June 2019. During 2020, my focus is the intersections of these High Arctic observations with the reported changes to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway shoreline ecologies. I’m excited about this new body of work, consistently located in contemporary art discourse on identity and place.
As promised in 2019, I am creating the Arctic Circle Expedition – “Sailing The Top of The World” book inspired by positive response to my presentations by the same name. Once again, I want to express my gratitude for your support to my multi media art research and production. The figurative abstract artworks created in 2020 and previous abstract expressionist paintings are conceptually consistent in their aesthetic concerns for fluidity of identity, memory, loss and uncertainty. Artwork below: Artist: Sandra Hawkins. Title: St Clair River to Godrich – Lake Huron, liquid acrylic on nautical chart, 2020
