I Love you don’t leave me
BLUE TEARS: a glacial story told with falling veils.

My first connections to the natural world were crickets singing me to sleep on warm summer nights and lilacs sweetening the air. As an adult I ventured beyond my own backyard to see manatees in the mangroves of Florida. I stretched my arms in a futile attempt to reach around the giant redwoods of California. In Nome, Alaska, I sat on a black beach and felt the cold spray from the dark Bering Sea. I dragged my chair into the Sonoran Desert and drew exotic cacti. I marveled at the vast desert of Egypt where everything seemed golden. Yet it was an epiphany in Yosemite that firmly cemented my love of our planet. Alone by my campfire at the base of Half Dome, thinking about a powerful glacier sculpting it from an immovable mountain, I found comfort in my insignificance and peace in my connection to our slowly changing planet. My small footprint and minor foibles didn’t even measure a millisecond.

I knew everything was fine.

Later, In Antarctica, Greenland and Alaska, I knew everything wasn’t fine. The glaciers leave the earth, inching their way to the water. Crevices open into their depth, crack and crash into the sea creating a titanic swell and then, with only a whisper, float away to become part of the warming ocean.

Blue Tears tells that story.

To discuss the constant degradation of the glaciers, I print my photographs in ways that reflect loss by unique printing processes and rephotographing with expired film.

Videos of Blue Tears https://www.patriciacarrmorgan.com/i-love-you-dont-

leave-me#/blue-tears/

Materials: performance, neon, eighteen silk organza panels printed with photographs from Antarctica and Greenland and during the exhibition the panels fall, ending with only one as well as photographic projects printed in on fine art paper

Archival inkjet prints on silk organza and fine art paper