Weathered Remains – Artifacts of Fire and Flood by Trish Harding
Lummi Island, WA – Artist Trish Harding presents Weathered Remains – Artifacts of Fire and Flood, a powerful collection of paintings that meditate on the volatile extremes of climate change—fire and flood, silence and loss, childhood and inheritance. The series, subtitled Wetlands/Drylands, emerged from a road trip through wildfire-ravaged landscapes between Bellingham and Santa Rosa, where Harding painted en plein air amid scorched earth and smoke-filled skies.
“I remember setting up my easel in landscapes reduced to ash,” she recalls. “There was no snow on Mt. Shasta—just the raw, exposed earth. I coughed for months.”
These evocative works, rendered in pastel, and metal, are imbued with more than memory. Set among the burnscapes are fragile relics of childhood—a soot-scarred Cabbage Patch doll, a yellow Tonka truck balanced on a blackened stump. These haunting symbols raise the question: what kind of world are we choosing to leave behind?
Harding describes the exhibit as “both a lament and a call to awareness.” She adds, “I explore the fragile balance between abundance and scarcity, water and flame. My hope is that these pieces stir reflection and inspire change—because though we’ve caused the damage, we still have time to choose care over neglect, humility over dominion, and maybe—just maybe—help the earth recover with us, not without us.”
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