"This white balloon is supposed to signify the globe or a glacier. Everyone knows balloons; they understand the elasticity that they pull, they pull, they pull, until it finally ruptures."
"It is said that in the next hundred years we will be losing around 7,000 languages. And so creating 'shh,' which is a sound, and it's onomatopoeic, it goes across hundreds of languages. It needs no translation."
"Water is life. I have always been really connected to water. And I think that when I make art, I, oftentimes, I am both the driver and the vehicle."
"I knew that there's all these issues surrounding the Great Lakes, especially in Chicago, what the Great Lakes mean to the residents here and the access to water."
Ana Teresa Fernández's exhibit 'Under Pressure' at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago aims to inspire climate action. The project symbolizes the Earth's fragility through a white balloon representing the globe. Fernández uses her stiletto to demonstrate the pressure humans exert on the planet. The exhibit emphasizes the importance of water and the loss of languages, with a focus on the Great Lakes' significance to Chicago residents. The artist engaged the community by rallying people to participate in her vision for environmental awareness.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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