Ann Morton is organizing Toward 2050, a Public Engagement Artwork reaching across all American states, territories and beyond in partnership with the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ.
As described on the website: TOWARD 2050, a public engagement artwork, will culminate in an immersive labyrinth installation at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona - January through May of 2025. The Garden’s ongoing commitment to advance excellence in education, research, exhibition and conservation, makes it the optimal location to orchestrate this artistic, social action that focuses on the urgency of how we must take part in caring for our planet's health. As visitors experience this labyrinth that YOU can help bring to fruition, they will step year-by-year, ever closer to 2050, humanity's target to achieve net zero in CO2 emissions.
In response to the call for environmentally-themed textile panels in the style of “prayer flags” that reflects what you most about our Earth's environment - flora, fauna, the forests, our oceans… I made a flag using an arashi shibori technique dyed with indigo grown in my yard on a scrap of leftover fabric that imagines waves in the sea.
Flags are due December 2023, sign up on the website if you'd like to participate.
