Meet the 2023 Tidal Shift Award Winners!
Division 1: Ages 14-18
“I perform my poems at environmental activism rallies and youth climate writing workshops. These pursuits culminated in Precipice, my collection of original poetry and oil paintings which explores the stress and uncertainty of approaching adulthood on a planet threatened by the climate crisis.”
“My work 'Kingdom Animalia' addresses species extinction and the diminishing of biodiversity. I think that our impact as humans on the environment surrounding us is important to document, so I did just that by taking the negative space of leaves that I found in my yard and filling their surroundings with all the animals I could think of.”
“‘Fragile’ aims to draw attention to how we are creating human-made disasters which in turn are affecting villages that often cannot get help. Far away in distant cities we go about our daily lives, unaware of how our lifestyle practices affect others around the planet. We need to care for our world because this is our only chance.”
Division 2: Ages 19-22
“Through this series of images, I explore what nature looks like in the age of post-industrialization. In the face of global politics, the environment is affected by human intervention: deforestation, climate destruction and urbanization. The idea of the "landscape" is no longer idyllic forests or fields of flowers but has instead been replaced by sprawling man-made concrete buildings in an industrial setting.”
“My artwork "Wild Reflections," is a picture of healthy trees and in the middle is a reflection of the trees in flames. It is to express the alarming, unsettling reality of wildfires.”
“In this short film, Mother Nature is pursued through time and space by human hands that both threaten to destroy her and long to protect her . . . We have to reach out to her before it is too late, before we destroy ourselves in our futile attempts to control her.”