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An Uncanny Postcard Match for the Period of Local weather Disaster

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Relying on the day, you may look to the sky and see a sea of pale blue or a radiant sundown creeping towards the horizon. Should you’re in a significant metropolitan space, although, you may also be met with the attribute red-brown haze of smog.

Berlin-based artist Macarena Ruiz-Tagle is behind the colourful Cyanometer and Sundown postcards we’ve featured on Colossal (and which have offered out in our store a number of instances). However she additionally created a 3rd model designed for these not-so-bright days.

Tiananmen Sq., Beijing (November 2013). Picture by Macarena Ruiz-Tagle

The World Well being Group estimates that 99 p.c of individuals on Earth breathe unsafe air, making Ruiz-Tagle’s Air Air pollution postcard maybe probably the most becoming for our period of local weather disaster. Whereas a stark distinction to the good blues, yellows, and oranges of the opposite two, this design is awash in pale pinks and grays to match that of a dismal, and even dirty, ambiance. Just like the others, the thought is to carry the work as much as the sky and mark the corresponding hue earlier than dropping it within the mail.

The interactive card shifts in which means relying on whether or not the opening reveals a misty fog or air thick with chemical substances, and it’s a part of a rising motion to trace local weather information in a tangible, grassroots method. “Separating the visual delight of being immersed in a cloud from the intoxicating reality of breathing heavily polluted air, the postcard evokes both the smog that engulfs global cities and the ethereal beauty of fog,” the artist writes. “In its mesmerizing aesthetic ambiguity, the work sustains a space for contemplation within our troubled atmosphere.”

Discover all three postcards within the Colossal Store, and discover extra of Ruiz-Tagle’s work on her web site.

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