Rachel Lodge

Air, Land and Sea is a four-channel animation that evokes the invisible processes that connect our forests, cities, waters, and sky–juxtaposed with the effects of fossil fuel consumption on the landscape: photosynthesis, water flow, combustion. The final scene culminates ablaze and with possibilities of regeneration; how does this moment determine our future actions? All illustrations were drawn by hand in pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper, animated in Adobe After Effects, and edited in Premiere.

With thanks to Jack Straw Cultural Center for sound engineering support and audio resources.

Varied Thrush audio by Geoffrey A. Keller, Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Orthithology (ML 42254).

About the Artist

Rachel Lodge explores the carbon cycle through hand-drawn digital images and animations that picture the flow of carbon through natural systems as well as our own fossil fuel emissions. Lodge’s artwork has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the Museum of Northwest Art, the University of Washington Botanic Garden, and Jack Straw Cultural Center. She lives and works in Seattle.