$1,350.00

Steel | 15”x11”x4”

Artist Statement: Climate Changed

Climate Changed is a steel metal sculpture assembled into the shape of a cloud. At first glance, its rigid industrial form stands in contrast to the softness we associate with clouds—but that is intentional. This “cloud” is not a fleeting, weightless presence in the sky, but a heavy, permanent reminder of how our climate has been altered by human hands.

The squared edges and welded seams speak to industry, machinery, and extraction—the very forces that have driven the crisis. The cloud no longer drifts freely; it is locked into a metallic frame, a symbol of how climate change is not distant or abstract but fixed into the reality of our lives.

The work also takes aim at denialism, particularly the Trump administration’s insistence that climate change is a “hoax.” In steel, the sculpture insists otherwise: the climate has already changed, and the consequences are neither soft nor imagined. Like the sculpture itself, they are hard, immovable, and impossible to ignore.

This sculpture embodies the United States’ retreat from climate responsibility—instantiated by Executive Order 14162, signed on January 20, 2025, which formally withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement upon President Trump’s inauguration.

Climate Changed is more than a sculpture. It is a manifesto of inertia—where power denies crisis, erases scientific inquiry, and sacrifices the future to fossil fuel profits. It asks: What happens when a nation dismantles its climate science, abandons global commitments, and speeds fossil fuel extraction—all while ignoring the collapse beneath its feet?