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.