The Universe Sees Everything
Paris, France, 2026
Perhaps what we need is not only more data about ecological decline, but more permission to acknowledge what that decline feels like and means to us. We need to name it for ourselves, acknowledge its personal and local impact, and invest in storytelling that reminds us of the ecological richness we once had access to and did not protect. We need to make more noise about these losses, document them, and mourn them together.
“Grief, properly understood and articulated, is nothing to be ashamed of, but our growing and quiet indifference to loss almost certainly is.” - Megan Mayhew Bergman
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/10/ecological-grief
(Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?)
- King John, William Shakespeare
acrylic paint, gesso, archival ink, oilstick on patterned rice paper
