DOUGLAS TEWKSBURY

I Think Hard Times are Coming

Sound Installation
The Inverness County Centre for the Arts
Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
2024

As part of the Dark Arctic group show. From the program:

The science of the environmental and climate crises is clear, of course. But—we ultimately propose—it is the role of artists to communicate what the environment means. What does the climate crisis mean? How can we make resonant the stories of humans' relationship to the natural environment? How do we communicate the exigency, the action, and the fierce urgency of what is needed at this moment and in this crucible?

Witnessing matters, and so does representation. They matter especially for artists, who shape public discourse, thought, and ideas before any theorists, academics, or politicians and industry leaders. Art is the first driver of imagination, of unthoughtof possibilities; and here, with our species facing existential collapse, artists have a responsibility to not only enter the conversation, but to drive it toward the creation of new ideas and new ways of being. It is our most important question, and it is the right one.