CONVERGENCE, 2022

There is a mystery to our climate that is visible yet elusive. To help elevate awareness around climate and it’s affect on us, I create charts using photographs I made of the ocean and clouds while at sea in the ITCZ. The Intertropical Convergence Zone or ITCZ (pronounced 'itch') is a narrow band of weather where the circulating trade winds of the Northern and Southern hemispheres collide. The heat released here drives the regional and global atmospheric circulation and is the birthplace of all hurricanes.


When I spent twenty seven days in the Pacific Ocean, the weather dictated my life minute by minute. I recorded the surface of the ocean and the strength of the wind hour by hour. The details I focused on in my remote location while at sea have become my pilot through an imperiled life today: wispy white cirrus float below dense blue cumulonimbus and darkness looms. The path through is interminable threatening to shift and become an iron albatross; waves are an undulating blanket with no rhythm or direction to usher. Observing and charting the dance between the open ocean and its weather I avow to their clout for holding the secrets to sustaining our anthropologic interval.


Each layered archival pigment print is hand marked to symbolize shifting but confined hurricane tracks and navigation plot lines then soaked in sea water collected at the ITCZ twenty years ago until the salt crystallizes in direct sunlight and reacts with the carbon in the inks to cause acidification.

Two luminous circular orbs float over a dramatic seascape with stormy clouds and bright sunlight.
Multiple translucent spheres with cloud reflections hover over a misty ocean landscape with light rays.
Abstract mixed-media landscape artwork with translucent oval shapes and dotted patterns over cloudy coastal scenery.
Surreal collage artwork featuring floating organic shapes over a stormy ocean landscape with dramatic cloudy sky.
Surreal collage artwork featuring ocean waves, a dark sphere, floating oar, and pastel sunset sky.
Abstract ocean seascape with overlapping translucent circles revealing stormy green sea waters.
Three overlapping circular frames reveal a dramatic cloudy landscape in a surreal photographic collage artwork.
A circular piece of dark, weathered metal with abstract blue-gray tones rests on a light textured surface.
Surreal collage of two circular lens-like orbs floating over a cloudy seascape with sunlight breaking through dramatic skies.
Abstract digital art featuring a teal circular shape with wavy black line overlays on a misty green background.
Watercolor painting of stormy clouds in a circular frame with abstract flowing line art overlay.
Handwritten journal notes titled The Zone with sketches describing environmental and sensory observations in a tropical setting.
World map showing global tropical cyclone tracks plotted over ocean basins in blue and cyan.

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