Article 6

Marilyn Stablein


Fractured Weather


One

Fractured Weather



power grid lock downs
from houston’s arctic freeze
to the northwest’s deadly heat wave



Two

Burning Planet



millennial apocalypse 
intense heat dome
cities, vineyards, forests scorched



Three

Toxic Air



in brown air open tents
homeless shelter/swelter
hundreds perish in three days



Four

Masked Sun



ash, soot-laden air
dims, swallows the sun
from covid-19 masks to air pollution face guards



Five

Climate Chaos



rising seas, flooding, condo collapse 
megadroughts, mass casualty heat events 
climate change—nature’s pandemonium

Fractured Weather is part of an ongoing graphic serial started during the Covid-19 virus pandemic of 2020-2021.
Five collages in this sixth installment include: Fractured Weather, Burning Planet, Toxic Air, Masked Sun, Climate Chaos.
Approximately 4.3” x 6.3”, Strathmore 80 lb. paper, vintage medical, game, travel images, maps, decorative papers, hand made papers, miscellaneous ephemera, and found text.



Marilyn Stablein is a multidisciplinary artist working in poetry, prose, collage, assemblage, photography, artist books, and performance art to explore visual narrative, travelog and memoir. Her artwork appears in journals, books, online and in private and public collections. Red Fox Press recently published Himalayan Notebook, an artist book of vernacular time/place based 1960s travel collages. marilynstablein.com

 
 

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