“Men argue, nature acts.” -Voltaire

The world is changing before our eyes. What we once knew is lost forever. In its wake we find a new term, solastalgia, used to describe the distress caused by environmental change, a sadness for the weather we once knew. The arctic burns and the deserts flood, it is an angry planet on which we live. And who among us stands up and says I will be the first to change?

Maimuna Adam is currently in Southeast England where she is working on a residency project with artists from around the world. The project is called Upcycled and is intended to create work from archives from around the world or from the personal archives of the artists involved. She is also working on her personal artwork for which she has been developing different narratives using coffee as a painting medium. She holds a strong interest in the history of coffee and how it shapes the world. To hear more about this and her other work, listen to the complete interview.

Roy Scranton is based in Los Angeles. He recently released two books and has a few other small pieces coming out in various publications in the near future. He is now starting to think about what a human future may look like in the catastrophic world that is currently emerging and beginning to figure out how his work will take shape moving forward. Much of Scranton’s recent smaller projects relate to the topic of climate change and the work that emerges next will follow along these lines. To hear more about his books (which are listed in our reading section below) and more, listen to the complete interview.