Esther Abramson
I am a visual and participatory artist, and a community climate activist; interested in exploring relational perspectives, interdependence and ecofeminism.
I value collaborative and interdisciplinary ways of working and I believe in the importance process over product when it comes to creative expression. I therefore remain very fluid in the medium and materials I work with.
Declaration
I declare a climate and ecological emergency. I declare the power of arts and culture in weaving new narratives in how we come together to face this emergency.
I acknowledge the privilege I hold being born into a nation that has disproportionately benefited, and continues to benefit, from a culture of colonial and neocolonial extractivism that is inextricably linked to the climate crisis.
Knowing this, I declare a responsibility to take action to address the climate and ecological emergency in my work, to address its roots in historical injustices and the myriad of intersecting ways it continues to deepen these injustices.
I declare that I cannot do everything, but I can do some things.
I declare that I cannot change the world, but I can create changes in my tiny part of it, and those changes create ripples.
I declare that I will never know the furthest reach of these ripples, and, that I do not need to know in order to know that they are worth making.
I declare that doing something is better than doing nothing.
