WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH: A FLAT EARTH ORRERY
By XavieR White
Venue: The Museum Of The Mind, Bethlem Royal Hospital. 4th September.
For An Environ-Mentally Beneficial Future.
'Head Injury Survivor Artist Turns Up The Pressure On COP26 Climate Leaders.'
Xavier's ‘Words Are Not Enough: Orrery’ Is Being Exhibited At The Museum Of The Mind, The Bethlem Hospital, Beckenham, On The Day It Is Being Visited By Coat Of Hopes, A Group Who Are Marching On Foot, The Full 441 Miles, To Attend The COP26 In Glasgow Set For November 2021..'
Outsider artist and brain trauma survivor Xavier White, launches a modern day 'orrery' art installation to help pressurize world leaders, gathering at the COP26 United Nations climate change conference, to compel them to seek solutions to the global climate crisis.
Conference Of Parties (COP) 26
The installation is based on ancient orrery, as a model of the solar system and future’s forecasting tool, re-assembling a wartime 'operations room', complete with large-scale global map surrounded by a series of ‘Worry Beads’ represented as green glass engraved globes/spheres.
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Xavier, who uses recycled materials, said: 'After my traumatic accident 30 years ago it was a combination of the Maudsley Hospital and a slow-starting practice of art that helped my recovery, in piecing my life back together again, I am using my art now to also help recover and nurse the earth. Like many I'm anxious that our political leaders final grasp the nettle this year. The Earth’s agenda just won't wait for humanity.
Cyclone Xavier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Xavier_(2017)
1,2,3, Degrees C, Think About It... Engraved Mirror & Stained Glass 2021
Xavier spent three years in Glasgow following his immediate recovery where he was enabled to focus on his rehabilitation through cycling, creative projects and attending a drawing class at the Charles Rennie Macintosh art school.
Cyclone Xavier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Xavier_(2017)
What's On The Conference Table?
The conference table is set and the Earth is waiting. Centered by a the image of a magnifying glass focusing on the COP 26 discussions graphically and two warning slogans, ‘Let’s nurse The Earth’ and 'The World is Watching'.
In the hope of finding a Glaswegian plot to express his anxiety for COP 26 conference in November.
The atmosphere does not respond to gestures. It is unmoved by promises, unimpressed by words.
1, 2, 3 Degrees, Emergency! 2021.
In a short time & for a shorter time world leaders will get round to conference, discussing existential truths & fears of climate crisis at the COP 26 conference in Glasgow, a route map plan for a journey to & through our futures….
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Sand of time Are Running Out...2021. Upcycled bottles, Bowls & sand
The world will be watching & waiting to see the solutions, that can will be applied by law globally for an environmentally better world. To the anxiety of finite resources our dependence on the luxury of Fossil fuels
It’s us were looking after, the world keeps turning...
It’s us were looking after, the world keeps turning...
The centre-piece Lets Nurse The Earth is Xavier 2nd large canvas, a more realistic vision than his utopic cityscape of Cohedia.
Xavier is wishing to take the Lets Nurses The Earth canvas to tour the Climate Friinge Week event around Glasgow 18th – 24 Sept
In the hope of finding a Glaswegian plot to express his anxiety for COP 26 conference in November.
Xavier is wishing to take the Lets Nurses The Earth canvas to tour the Climate Friinge Week event around Glasgow 18th – 24 Sept
In the hope of finding a Glaswegian plot to express his anxiety for COP 26 conference in November.
World leaders confer, blah blah blah...
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