Markel Uriu’s work explores invasive species: their environmental impacts, and links to humanity, globalization, and colonization.
By tracing the movements of invasive species, human histories can be revealed. These arrivals drastically alter and shape the landscape, creating new iterations within the ecosystem, often with unintended consequences.
As human developments compound issues such as climate change, new elements create further unknown surprises.
New works from 2020-present explore these emerging shifts, focusing on hybrids and extinctions which resulted from the movements of new organisms through human distribution.
Additional works explore the unknowns within mundane landscapes, exploring recent changes in landscapes through photographic records and obfuscation through the use of paper weavings. Supported by a 4Culture Art Project Grant, Markel Uriu’s work explores invasive species: their environmental impacts, and links to humanity, globalization, and colonization
The Westslope Cutthroat trout is a subspecies of fish endemic to the United States. It is currently considered threatened in its native range, due to the introduction of the Rainbow trout, a popular sporting fish with whom it is interbreeding itself out of existence. Climate change has enabled this phenomenon, as the shifting seasons has aligned their previously separate annual spawning times. " data-credit="" data-source="">
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Supported by a 4Culture Art Project Grant, Markel Uriu’s work explores invasive species: their environmental impacts, and links to humanity, globalization, and colonization.