Airborne Era
Solo Show
March 30 - June 9, 2022
Opening reception: April 13, 2022.
Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Complex (SEEC) gallery, University of Colorado Boulder
4001 Discovery Dr, Boulder, CO 80303
10 color photographs, selected from a larger body of work. Images available for purchase. All images copyright Kelsey Simpkins 2022.
March 30 - June 9, 2022
Opening reception: April 13, 2022.
Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Complex (SEEC) gallery, University of Colorado Boulder
4001 Discovery Dr, Boulder, CO 80303
10 color photographs, selected from a larger body of work. Images available for purchase. All images copyright Kelsey Simpkins 2022.
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world in early 2020, a race began to identify the main route of its transmission. It turned out to be the very thing we cannot see, yet which is all around us at all times: our shared air. When wildfire smoke descended on Boulder in the fall of 2020, even the outdoor spaces that had been safer from the virus became hazardous to our health.
Between a novel airborne virus, wildfires near and far, and a spike in summer ground-level ozone concentrations, residents of the Front Range have had to renegotiate their relationship with air over the past two years. While the future of the pandemic and our climate remains uncertain, it is clear that air will be a defining element of this decade, if not this century.
This body of photographic work visualizes the air around us using colored smoke and performers in order to explore how we can coexist with each other and the air around us, in this airborne era. Coordinated with the City of Boulder and funded by the Nature Environment Science Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts, these photographs were taken in May of 2021 in north Boulder, before wildfire season began in earnest.
Between a novel airborne virus, wildfires near and far, and a spike in summer ground-level ozone concentrations, residents of the Front Range have had to renegotiate their relationship with air over the past two years. While the future of the pandemic and our climate remains uncertain, it is clear that air will be a defining element of this decade, if not this century.
This body of photographic work visualizes the air around us using colored smoke and performers in order to explore how we can coexist with each other and the air around us, in this airborne era. Coordinated with the City of Boulder and funded by the Nature Environment Science Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts, these photographs were taken in May of 2021 in north Boulder, before wildfire season began in earnest.
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