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This article was written after Nathalie Miebach's exhibition changing waters was featured at the Craft Folk and Art Museum in Los Angelas, California. Miebach's work has also been featured all over America and Europe. She has won many awards and residencies for her work, and is truly an inspiration. Nathalie has received national recognition from her creative and innovative pieces, and her style blows my mind! She has changed my perspective about the artistic word through her works. My favorite aspect of her sculptures is how each one can be played into a song!
"Central to Miebach’s work is her desire to understand and visually convey the complex interactions between weather and living marine systems. She collects recent weather data, then looks back one year, sometimes te
n, to assess patterns. Utilizing artistic processes and everyday materials such as construction toys, spinning tops, model rollercoasters, and wooden reeds, Miebach expands the traditional parameters through which science data has been visually translated.
The resulting works—wall installations, sculptural floor pieces, and musical scores accompanied by sound—provoke the visual vocabulary and expectations of science and art.
Miebach’s data has been collected from ocean buoys, weather stations, historical data sources, and folklore from the fishing communities in the Gulf of Maine. In the work “To Hear an Ocean in a Whisper,” the Gulf of Maine has been mapped out as an amusement park, in which rollercoasters and Ferris wheels represent data such as the migration patterns of krill, or the motions of the Labrador Current.
Miebach explains, 'My work is absolutely connected to climate change because it looks at weather in this day and age...The Gulf of Maine has been studied quite a bit in regards to climate change because these seemingly small changes in water temperature have led to other chemical changes in the water that are altering the marine ecosystem.' "
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