- How I ended up in Everest building a monument against trash In 2018, I received an email from Sagarmatha Next, an NGO in Nepal. They wanted to know if I might be interested in collaborating with them to use art to tackle the waste problem in the Everest region. At the time, Everest was getting a lot of negative press about becoming the world’s tallest landfill […]
- This phoenix is made from the average human’s carbon footprint (every year) Normally when I think about climate change – I feel an overwhelming sense of despair. Earth Overshoot Day – the day we spend our carbon budget for the year – gets closer every single year. But last year, I discovered a glimmer of hope. A glimmer, based on indigenous wisdom, to sequester carbon into the […]
- A Cardboard Giant Plastic Tap – free for Students! Ever since I built a four-story tall Giant Plastic Tap, spewing plastics all over the UN headquarters of the United Nations when the Global Plastics Treaty was signed, I’ve received hundreds of requests to rebuild it worldwide. While it’s been an honor to build these giant installations globally, I’ve always dreamed of making a more […]
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Unveiling the E-Waste Generator – An immersive experience demanding the Right to Repair Did you know that 800 laptops worth of Electronic Waste are thrown away every second? The #1 reason: Exorbitant repair costs that keep people buying new. For decades, big tech companies have been fighting to restrict access to affordable repairs – shutting down small independent repair shops and keeping us addicted to buying new. So when […] - A Truckload of Fashion Greenwashing Did you know that a truckload of clothing is burned or landfilled every second? Over the last few years, the rise of fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara has been rapidly overtaken by ultra-fast fashion brands like Shein, with anywhere between 2,000 and 10,000 designs added to their website Every. Single. Day. Despite more […]
- I Set My Art Installation on Fire: Stopping the Perpetual Plastic Machine Meet the Perpetual Plastic Machine – a colossal 15-foot-tall art installation I created in collaboration with Greenpeace. This isn’t your typical art piece that you’d find in a museum. It’s a giant, working machine that shows the toxic relationship between fossil fuels and plastic production – and I decided to set it on fire with […]
- I built an 11-foot skull covered in E-Waste to expose Bitcoin’s Impact on Climate Change Everything we do online takes energy. A single google search? That takes 1080 Joules of energy*. Streaming an hour of Netflix? 288,000 Joules*. One Bitcoin transaction? A mindboggling 6,995,000,000 Joules.* Bitcoin is an energy monster, burning a ton of fossil fuels – but it could disappear overnight if someone designed the right software update. Ethereum did […]
- 10 foot tall Extinction Thermometer highlighting the connection between climate change and biodiversity loss. During the cold war, the doomsday clock was a symbol and metaphor that was used to describe how close we were to mutually assured destruction. It served as a powerful and persistent reminder of how fragile our existence was. But when it comes to climate change, a similar symbol was never envisioned – until now. […]
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Explaining Climate Equity with Paper and Charcoal A couple months ago, my good friend and data scientist Eric Berlow challenged me to explain the concept of “Climate Equity” through art. After throwing many different ideas around, we finally settled on making a diorama – a three-dimensional charcoal drawing made from 22 different pieces of paper, drawn with the help of 16-year-old illustrator […] -
This three story tall giant art installation is leaking plastics into different environments Single-use plastic consumption has gone up by 250-300% during the pandemic. And with the United Nations Environmental Assembly coming together in February 2022 to discuss a global plastic treaty, we need to put pressure on world leaders to get the situation under control! As an artist and activist, I’m always looking for exciting ways to make the […] - Impossible Maternity Photos with Fruits & Vegetables After noticing that Corn looked like Skyscrapers, my mom asked if I could help her create a series of tiny world portraits of my 8-month old pregnant sister and her husband. My sister is a pretty adventurous lady but since the lockdowns began, we’ve been all trapped… so we decided to give her an adventure […]
- This cosmic cave is an Instagram trap made from 18,000 used plastic cups Every single day, millions of plastic takeaway cups are used in food centers across the world. Receiving a takeaway cup, even when dining in – has become so commonplace that we don’t even think twice about how little sense it makes to use take-out cups within a dine-in setting. To help start that conversation, we […]
