These works use the conceptual framework of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome structures to address the "heat dome" phenomenon we experienced in British Columbia in 2021. The drawings depict things on fire; landscapes, flora, and fauna all framed underneath geodesic domes. Scribed underneath the drawings are quotes from Fuller which satirically poke and prod to the urgency of our current climate moment. It is my hope that these works address the theme of sustainability through a simultaneous consideration of past and present, urgency and nonchalance, and cause and consequence.

Connor Charlesworth is a Canadian contemporary visual artist currently based in Kelowna, BC. He received his MFA from the University of Victoria (2018) with a specialization in painting, and his BFA from the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, BC (2015). He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Canada and exhibited in student exhibitions abroad in Bulgaria and Egypt. He has taught drawing and painting at the University of Victoria, Thompson Rivers University, and the University of British Columbia in Kelowna.

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