Heat Rises
Muffy Clark GillA recent exhibition by The Batik Guild at Naples Botanical Garden challenged us as artists to create artwork that shows how we are affected by climate change. In this batik on silk painting which I titled "Heat Rises" I relied on a photograph that I had taken while swimming in a formation known as "The Aquarium" at the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park in the Bahamas.Having witness the bleaching of corals as the result of rising sea temperatures, I wanted to show how this temperature change caused the colors to change in my artwork. I am very concerned about the continuing loss of sea life around me.