“What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.”
-Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Heat Dome
Watercolor monotype
30" X44"
Bare ground, concrete, asphalt, and astroturf emit 4X radiant heat. Great masses of radiant heat create heat domes. Heat domes prohibit weather from moving across the land. In contrast, surfaces covered in thick layers of plants indigenous to the region store water in the soil. When the day warms, the plants transpire, releasing bacteria with the moisture to form clouds that provide shade and then rain. We each need to carry our ecological weight. We can start by considering new ways to surface our city scapes to cool the planet.
Heat Dome ghost