CHRISTINE MARIE
THE SENSE OF WONDER IN DEVELOPMENT
At the end of her life, the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson wrote "The Sense of Wonder," a manual for embracing the natural world. Carson asks, what if all children had a connection with nature? Might they grow up to create a world in harmony with it? Today, a beloved setting like a creek or a tree may disappear by next season. The current state of the climate crisis has led us to witness—and for many, to directly experience—these losses caused by extreme weather conditions.
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The Sense of Wonder is a project memorializing the natural world through community engagement, to provide support to one another as we make sense of real-time environmental change in relationship to intergenerational memory.
Analog versus digital. Nature versus destruction.
The battle unfolds on a giant cube, where analog devices casting natural landscapes compete with intermittent AI-powered digital projections of disaster. The convergence and clash of these visuals invite reflection on the fragility of our environment and the profound consequences of unchecked technological advancement.
