A specific landscape on the fifth floor of the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn street artist Swan showed a "flooded homeland." Spectacular specific landscape stretches on the fifth floor of the rotunda of the Brooklyn Museum. Housed on a giant tree sculpture, the installation explores the theme of climate change and its social consequences.



Swan made an unusual installation of a variety of objects and artifacts with paper drawings and engravings. So the designer conveyed all the diversity and complexity of the real natural landscape.



Swan has previously worked on eco-projects. His collection includes “junk rafts” made of recycled materials, which were also included in the “submerged homeland” installation.



The huge carefully constructed tree, which acts as the center of the installation, rises 72 feet and is "decorated" with leaves carved out of paper. The lighting is set so that the foliage casts beautiful and ethereal shadows on the curved walls.



The installation was inspired by climate change in recent decades. Flooded Homeland draws attention to the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy, as well as the 8,000-year-old tsunami that destroyed Doggerland, an area that once connected Britain to Europe. Swan uses figurative engravings and drawings to express the social and environmental consequences of such extreme weather events.

Source: www.ecobyt.ru/