Virtual Residency Day Fourteen, Linda Weintraub & Anke Mellin

The reason I'm doing this Virtual Residency is to see some changes on the ground that relate to global warming. I asked some ecological art colleagues to voice thier concerns:

"My experience has been that it is easier to engage people in abstract ruminations about global environmental conditions than to get them to touch the living and nonliving entities that surround them." -Linda Weintraub. Art Historian

I replied, "Thank you, Linda, a very useful point. Perhaps I need to emphasize more, that I am, as much as possible, working with people on the ground at each site to define what they perceive as their problems and what precisely I can contribute towards a better situation, art that enables preservation and restoration. Obviously there are always also ways we must work in situ, in more depth. I am hoping that Anke Mellin's last sentence, below, is precisely what may happen."

Anke Mellin, curator and artist wrote:
"imagine- all the so called Nature Artists refuse to travel like before (plane- long journeys by car etc). Only those who are living where the exhibition takes place are participating, others are invited to make a work which is based on a dialog between those who live in the region and the artist living far away. etc. etc."