TRIAGE: Art For Environmental Urgency
TRIAGE was a duo exhibition of cross disciplinary art at Throughline Collective Gallery (Houston, TX, US) that looked at our environment as a living entity, composed of interconnected organisms that thrive, evolve, and suffer trauma, as humans do. Through installation, video, drawing, embroidery, and interactive projects, artists Ellen H Ray and Heather L. Johnson celebrated the resilience of non-human life, while reflecting on consequences of environmental damage and our urgent need for deeper connections to the nonhuman world. As both of us question dichotomies emerging from our reliance on climate-compromising technology, our goal was to amplify hope exhibited in the persistence and tenacity of nature.
"Facsimile" and "Marking Our Losses" *Facsimile begins at the top with living and organic materials but becomes increasingly plastic as the color depletes. *Marking Our Losses is an interactive work that invites viewers to build a cairn to mark an environmental loss in their lives
Detail: Facsimile Living jasmine vine, living moss, organic preserved Spanish moss, mulbery paper
Detail 2: Facsimile mulberry paper, wire, plastic tape, acrylic paint
Water Follies, 2025 Video, non-viable water vessels made from drawings and organic materials
Detail: Water Follies
Detail: The Ghost Room The Ghost Room was a video installation in a small built darkened space. Three container pepper's ghosts in glass cloche created an environment where the observer becomes the observed.
"Prayer" 34" x 26" Pastel, Charcoal, Graphite on paper