AWEAR Project

In 2025, I started a project called AWEAR: making wearable gestures of hope about climate change. I wanted to use my art, research, training, and community-engagement skills to overcome what is described as the 'socially sanctioned silence' about climate change.

Climate change is a topic that can be either too abstract or too hard to deal with for many of us.  Hope can be in short supply in a time of rising social tensions and ecological uncertainty. Many of us deal with this threat by not talking about it at all or living with a sense of dread or feeling powerless to act. But we can all make a huge impact. In fact, talking about it can help to change values and behaviours. 

 

In the AWEAR project, I am using a participatory approach, making artworks with and in communities, holding conversations as we make. The artworks act as conversation starters as they are worn, taken out into communities, prompting discussion and curiosity.