Lost in the Industrial Jungle: From the natural fauna/flora to manufactured landscapes of our current industrial era, I explore a journey through time and space of the Earth’s changing facade. The human obsession with energy, power, and control has altered Earth's landscape.
Journey Across the Bridge: an immigrant mother and daughter journey across the bridge and reconnect across generations and cultural divides in New York City. During a train ride home, a mother compares her daughter to the “successful” children of her friends. The daughter doesn’t say anything, and the mother continues to talk about her homeland. In the end, they find a connection of love and understanding.
"EBB and FLOW" shows a brief moment in the Intertidal Zone and how water revitalizes marine life as it washes in. The Intertidal Zone has an abundance of life, even though many of it may look like rocks to the unknowing eye. I learned about the life of the aggregating anemone, golden and olive rockweed, California mussel, leaf and gooseneck barnacle, owl limpet, California spiny chiton, pink acorn barnacle, common acorn barnacle, and black turban snail – just to name a few! They depend on plankton from the ocean that wash up at various times of the day. These organisms face many challenges such as a decline in food as a result of warming ocean temperatures, damages from human activities such as when people collect them or step on them, and loss of habitat.
