The Miller Library welcomes Rachel Lodge as our exhibitor during the month of February.
In this exhibit, Rachel Lodge explores the carbon cycle through hand-drawn, science-based images and animation excerpts that portray the flow of carbon through natural systems as well as our own fossil fuel emissions. Using simple visualizations of phenomena that are mostly too small or too large for our ordinary human perception, she explores the movement of carbon through photosynthesis, carbon cycling in the ocean (e.g., through plankton, krill, whales), exchange of carbon and oxygen through trees, even human breath and our own bodies. By bringing some of these processes more fully into imagination the exhibit invites viewers to consider themselves as carbon stewards whose actions have planetary significance.
The exhibit will also present a series of carbon-based objects including forest tree ring samples from North Cascades National Park.
