Different land masses will be altered differently causing various behaviors and responses in each population. People behave differently because their landscape is different. Some countries will be greatly affected – the people of Greenland are now planting gardens – others will be affected only mildly. People will be forced to interact differently with their surrounding waters. Jellyfish like warm waters and therefore are appearing earlier and in larger numbers and are causing people to use beaches differently. Fishing is changing as water temperature rises – cold water fish go further north and warm water fish do the same.

Composed of a variety of segments, each researched factual digital print represents a geographic country, territory or state. Assembled as digital collages, the prints include maps – which frequently depict loss of land at various rising sea levels - colors, costume and flora and fauna. Together, as a whole, the segments represent the changes that are happening and can develop.

The expressionistic oil paintings symbolize both the anguish and destruction of peoples’ lives and lands as well as the response of the artist to these changes. To emphasize the responses, groups of individual paintings are hung together.

The digital prints depict the threat; the paintings depict the emotional response to the potential result. One is the cause the other is the consequence of seas rising.

Ann R. Shapiro, Ph.D.

ANN R. SHAPIRO, Ph.D.

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