A number of work analyzing the connection between reminiscence, place, and the surroundings by Los Angeles-based artist Madeleine Tonzi. Born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Tonzi attracts on her private recollections and experiences to mirror on our ever-changing landscapes and the impression of local weather change. A standard thread all through her work is the idea of “solastalgia” — a time period coined by environmental thinker Glenn Albrecht to explain the emotional and existential misery attributable to environmental change.
Sourced from reminiscence, and mediated by the distortion of these recollections over time, Tonzi’s imagery entails each natural and architectural kinds, laborious edges and smooth color pallets. These delicate tensions invite the viewer to think about their very own contradictory relationship to their surroundings and present local weather disaster. Try extra of Tonzi’s work beneath!