Artist Stacy Lynn Waddell throws an emergency blanket over the National Mall reflecting pool illustrating the climate emergency. Her installation combines scientific data with her virtual installation taking her viewers through history as you watch the consequences of global warming worsen over time.

The emergency blanket takes global warming trends to a new level as it allows the viewer to jump through the history of our planet's destruction. This piece ties in how oil & gas industries pump money into controlling a well-oiled political machine that funds policies that prioritize corporate profits at the expense of the environment. 

Stacy Lynn Waddell creates works that structure sites of intersection between both real and imagined aspects of history and culture. With a variety of transformative processes that include heat/laser technology, accumulation, embossing /debossing, interference, and gilding, these points of intersection pose important questions related to authorship, beauty, and the persuasive power of nationalistic ideology. The artist splits her time between North Carolina and New York.

WHAT OCTAVIA E. BUTLER SAW WHEN SHE LANDED AT THE SITE, 2021

"Formally, when you look at them, a big giant crinkle sheet of paper that you can then continue to shape. The other thing about these blankets is that can be shaped into forms, right? They could be folded like a tapestry. And that kind of like every time you change the form or shape of it, it holds the memory of what you did to it prior, and that's what the environment does, right? It holds the memory of what we're doing to it, of everything we've done to it."  Waddell