This is located right outside of my apartment building on the side walk that receives a decent amount of traffic. What is written in the snow is the following: "Snow does not equal the negation of Global Warming's existence." There are some squiggly lines around it and a cloud to the left.
Like I said, I'm not the greatest artist in the world, but I think there is some meaning behind this art. As our world faces the consequences of global warming, there are many who believe it exists and many who do not. It's definitely a tough thing to notice because it spans over time and obviously we weren't around to see what it was like a thousand years ago. Yet, there is plenty of evidence that shows global warming's existence if you're willing to look a little bit harder at the world around you.
Snow is one item that non-believers use to prove that global warming doesn't exist. To them, snow wouldn't be possible if the Earth was getting warmer and so when the snow comes down in all of its glory they claim that global warming can't exist. However, that is not the case and it has been proven to be so.
I think this piece of "art work" is disruptive because it's in an area that people walk by and it takes a stand on a serious topic. It's straight to the point and doesn't leave room for interpretation. It's also putting my opinion out there, even though it isn't signed, it will make people think about the topic and layout their own opinion on the matter.
Now, there's nothing really tricky here, language wise. I interpreted the point of this assignment to use language to be disruptive in a way that is obvious rather than trying to make people think too hard. The only thing someone would need to know in this instance would be the symbol in the top row to mean "does not equal" while the rest of the art is easy to interpret. I suppose, however, that the audience would need to know of the existence of arguments that claim snow to be the evidence of global warming's non-existence, but other than that I can't think of a reason why someone who walked past this wouldn't understand the message inscribed in the snow.
Improvement wise, I was thinking I could have used some sort of color to outline the text in the snow, but I didn't really have anything that would be environmentally friendly to lay down so I decided to just use the element that was provided to me and that was the snow.
The symbols around the snow don't really mean anything in particular. I originally had just the sentence in the snow, but then when I asked for feedback on it, a friend of mine said that I should draw something around it so it would appear more art like. My goal here then was to just add something to make it more art-like, but someone might be able to take the curvy lines to represent heat which would be relative to global warming and the cloud to the left could mean something, but I didn't have any intention behind it when I put it there.
Overall, I think there is a powerful message behind this because it's out in public and it challenges people to think about global warming and how we take our winters for granted. With that said, my work is done here and now everyone believes in Global Warming...right?
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