| A large drawing on the ceiling throughout the main gallery is made by a variety of stamped footprints. It creates an overall environment to make the visitor aware of the truly global and threatening nature of this problem, but also how all of our individual actions add up to this big cloud. The drawing pervades the gallery, hovering above the other pieces and through assembling many individual marks makes visible the unseen threat. The piece starts at eye height on a central column that engages the viewer through personal notes and simple small sketches about my personal relationship to all this and invites visitors to add their own personal notes.
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| The carbon from the 2007 southern California wild fires, which released 25% of the CO2 released in the whole state of California in one month by all fossil fuel sources, is mixed into clear acrylic medium to create the prints.
Credits: Assistants Hannah Verlin and Kaz Naganuma; Carbon collected by Siân Héder
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"Hollywood Hills one year later" (photo Sian Héder)