The Climate Crisis. We hear about it every day, anticipate its morbid
eventuality, and all the while feel powerless to do much about it.
But don't look away yet. Adelaide artist John Willanski's exhibition
Tiny Towns eradicates all that fear and unease, with its cute yet
poignant take on sustainable communities and doing your bit to be
green.
Part of Adelaide's Fringe Festival, Willanski's portraiture of a
low-key, green-friendly community of bee keepers, chooks, rainwater
tanks and local produce-swapping depicts a not too distant reality
that, although not hard to come by, is something the majority fails to
participate in.
John said: “So many environmentalists scale back their ecological
footprints in isolation, taking on too much change in an unsustainable
way. I hope that people who are working to reduce their footprints
consider communities as part of that and people who haven't thought
about can see it's not that hard.”
Inspired by a research project on how the role of communities can
respond to the environmental challenges of the future, the snapshots'
welcoming and childlike style promises to engage and provoke those
into thinking small and changing big.
The exhibition launches February 9, and goes on inspiring until March
31 at Bliss Organic Cafe, Compton Street, Adelaide.
