Stuart Candy, from UH Manoa reports on the emerging attempts by citizen artists to mark their environment as a method to show potential local impacts from climate change. He compares the Hawai'ian chalk line to Eve Mosher's work in New York, the projects underway in Seattle and San Francisco, and the lightblueline effort in Santa Barbara.
Here is an excerpt.
"So how effective is this type of project in achieving the ends its animators typically have in mind?
In Sunday's New York Times (June 16, 2007, Art & Design Section) Randy Kennedy wrote about Eve Mosher's efforts to "draw the line" in NYC.
Eve is the creative force behind HighWaterLine. In partnership with the Canary Project (which is also partnering with lightblueline on the Santa Barbara City Hall exhibit), Eve is out in the streets of New York, chalking the 10 foot elevation line as this runs through the buroughs.