100-12-gone

This piece documents global average temperatures over the hundred years from 1916 to 2015. It consists of one hundred dodecagons, each representing one year, each with twelve corners representing twelve months, and each corner also representing the average temperature of that month. Hung from the ceiling, the dodecagons span five metres, starting narrow and getting wider as the temperatures rise closer to today. Transparency and layering in the piece represent the layering of time. The colour changes every twenty dodecagons —a general technique in spiral graphs to distinguish time. Each brushstroke on the hand-painted dodecagons represents our effect on the environment.