Refractions of a present future featured six young artists whose works channel sensory, poetic, and personal explorations of living within lifetimes characterized by environmental destabilization on multiple scales. In a diverse set of media–including color study, poetry, narrative film, sonic composition, digital illustration, and painting–they trace instances of environmental, cultural, and temporal rupture that reveal how our pasts and our futures both resonate in the ever-unfolding present. Across disciplines, their works use abstraction, texture, and sensory modes of communication to investigate the tensions between experiences of fragmentation and acts of mending in the midst of climate crises.
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