High Tide, a 2016 public art installation created by LARP professor Carolina Aragón,is now featured in the Fifth National Climate Assessment’s first-ever Art × Climate gallery.
The National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent scientific report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. The report’s new Art x Climate gallery demonstrates the importance of recognizing how, together, science and art can amplify our collective climate awareness and action.
Drawing inspiration from Boston’s original marsh landscape, High Tide visualized a “marsh” of color-changing circles moving around vertical rods, inviting pedestrians to imagine future flooding along Boston's coast due to sea level rise.
“One of the things that I’m most proud of with High Tide is how this hand-made project was built with LARP students in our old building at UMass. It’s incredible to see the impact this artwork has had in the region, and now nation-wide," said Aragón.
Watch the full video about making of High Tide (2016) on Carolina Aragón's website, https://www.carolinaaragon.com/high-tide.
To view Aragón and her work featured in the National Climate Assessment’s Art x Climate Gallery, please visit https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/art-climate/#artwork-all.