BLANE DE ST. CROIX
From: Boston
Works in: New York
Focus: Ice melt
Blane de St. Croix uses scale models to demystify geopolitical issues: In 2009 he re-created several miles of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas in a 100-foot miniature, “so the public could actually walk it,” he says. Another project mapped the line between Afghanistan and Pakistan in mountainous Tora Bora. Climate change, he says, is “the next border issue.”
Completed in 2009, one of his first works to deal directly with climate change displayed a West Virginia mountain range with its top removed for strip mining as a 40-foot-long, 22-foot-high model. “I scale up my work so people can’t avoid it,” he says. Soon he was receiving grants and going on scientific expeditions to remote corners of the globe. “I had the opportunity to go to Svalbard [Norway] and travel with scientists to be a witness to glaciers that will never be around again,” he says. “I went to the high Arctic in Alaska, where you can stand on the coast and physically watch the permafrost melt away.”
The trips were illuminating and “increased my responsibility,” de St. Croix says. Many experts he met were desperate for people to tell their stories. His art, he realized, could bring broad audiences into the conversation.
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