The Tempestry Project

The Tempestry Project
Formation2017
Websitewww.tempestryproject.com

The Tempestry Project is a collaborative fiber arts project that presents global warming data in visual form through knitted or crocheted artwork. The project is part of a larger "data art" movement and the developing field of climate change art, which seeks to exploit the human tendency to value personal experience over data by creating accessible experiential representations of the data.

Tempestries are made by knitting or crocheting rows in specified colors that represent respective high temperatures each day for a year. Multiple works are typically displayed together to show change over time. The project began in 2017 in Anacortes, Washington, US, and has since spread throughout the country and around the world.

The word "tempestry" is a portmanteau of "temperature" and "tapestry."

History

The first tempestry was created using 2016 data from the Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island, Washington.[1] Emily McNeil, Marissa Connelly, and Justin Connelly, having read about climatologists trying to preserve climate research data in preparation for anticipated removal of such data from US government websites by the Trump administration, were "joking" that "we should return to more concrete forms of data storage."[1]

In January 2017 McNeil,[2] Marissa Connelly[3] and Justin Connelly founded the project in Anacortes, Washington[4] to encourage other fiber artists to produce "striking visuals that communicate changes at an intimate, local scale."[5] According to Justin Connelly, "The science articles talk about what's happening at the poles. For many people, that's not their experience and so they don't relate to it in a powerful way...but even here [outside Seattle], in a temperate place, you can see stark change over the last 40 years or so. It puts it in their backyard."[5] The project name is a portmanteau of the words "temperature" and "tapestry."[5]

The organization offers kits including yarn, instructions, and a data sheet of daily temperatures in a given location. In 2017 they sold 40 kits and in 2018, 500.[1] The 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown temporarily affected production for the US, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) restricted access to the databases used to provide historical weather data for the United States.[6]

The concept was inspired by a similar fiberwork concept called a "temperature blanket", an afghan- or bedspread-sized project commemorating a particular year by working stripes or bands of colors representing each day's high or low temperature for a year.[5][7][8]

As of December 2018 projects had been created by fiber artists in nearly every U.S. state and in 20 other countries.[2]

Production

Color cards for Fahrenheit and Celsius

Each tempestry is knitted or crocheted, one row each day,[9] in the specified color for each date's high temperature[3] starting on January 1 and ending on December 31 for a given year in a single location to form a banner the size of a scarf[3][10] that graphically represents a year of daily high temperatures in a single location.[2][11][12]

Colors for each five-degree temperature range are standardized and temperature data is collected from the NOAA[13] so that collected displays of work by different artists working in different locations and on different years can be interpreted as direct comparisons.[5]

Because gauge is different between crochet vs. knitting, for different knit stitches, and among different crafters, finished tempestries will vary in length and width depending on whether they're created by the same crafter using the same stitch or are created by different crafters using a variety of stitches. Some crafters' gauge varies, and two works created even by a crafter with a very stable gauge using the same stitch will inevitably vary slightly.[14]

Display

Tempestries for Deception Pass, WA, USA (L - R: 1950 to 2017) at the Museum of Northwest Art

Tempestry banners are typically hung vertically, the first row (representing January 1) at the bottom and the final row (December 31) at the top, in groupings of two or more to show how daily high temperatures have changed year-to-year in a given location.[2][12]

Project pieces were first publicly displayed in Anacortes, Washington.[2] In 2018 projects were displayed at the Museum of Northwest Art[15] and at the Creative Climate Awards in New York City.[5][16] In May 2019 a project consisting of 27 tempestries representing 100 years on Orcas Island in 4-year increments was displayed at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiberarts Museum.[17]

In 2020 pieces were displayed at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art[18] and at Temple University's Ginsberg Health Sciences Library.[19]

Projects

In 2019 a group of US knitters organized a National Park Tempestry Project, inviting crafters to create a tempestry for 2016 – the year of the National Park Service Centennial – and one for the earliest year for which data was available for each US National Park.[6][18]

In 2019 the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education [Wikidata] near Philadelphia organized a project using data provided by the Franklin Institute to create tempestries for the city, one for every fifth year from 1875 through 2018.[1] Crafters in Mexico City organized a similar project.[1]

Similar artworks

According to data journalist David McCandless, tempestries and similar creations are part of a larger data art movement in which data is represented in novel ways.[20] Grace Ebert, writing for Colossal, calls such projects "part of a larger movement to document micro weather changes that may serve as indicators of broader climate issues."[21][22] Electronic literature writer and scholar, Anastasia Salter, uses Tempestry scarves to illustrate the fusion of craft and computation in procedural electronic literature. [23]

Works inspired by The Tempestry Project

Faculty at North Central Michigan College produced a similar exhibit in 2018 inspired by The Tempestry Project.[24][25] Pennsylvania State University professor Laura Guertin contributed a poster to the American Geophysical Union's 2017 Fall meeting displaying similar works for January through April 1917, 1967, and 2017.[26]

Some fiber artists have created banners similar to tempestries, but using daily low temperatures.[3]

Other climate change art

Other artists and scientists are experimenting with climate change art as a way to overcome humans' hardwired tendency to value personal experience over data and to disengage from data-based representations[27] by making the data "vivid and accessible".[28][21] In 2018, artist Xavier Cortada's project Underwater Home Owner's Association placed signs in front yards throughout Miami, Florida indicating each property's height above sea level to illustrate what sea level rise would flood that property.[27][29]

a series of thin vertical stripes in various shades of blue and red, showing more blues at the left end and more reds at the right end to represent global warming
Ed Hawkins' warming stripes, showing more blues at the left and more reds at the right, to represent global warming over time[30]

In 2016, Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the University of Reading, created "climate spirals," an animated series of circular data representations of climate change, and followed in 2018 with "warming stripes", a series of colored stripes representing chronologically ordered temperatures.[27][31]

In 2015, University of Georgia marine scientist Joan Sheldon produced a scarf illustrating average yearly temperature from the 1600s to the present using one row per year.[32]

In 2012, filmmaker Jeff Orlowski made Chasing Ice, documenting photographer James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, which uses time-lapse photography to show the disappearance of glaciers over time.[28]

In 2007, artist Eve Mosher used a sports-field chalk marker to draw a blue "high-water" line around Manhattan and Brooklyn, showing the areas that would be underwater if climate change predictions are realized. Her HighWaterLine Project has since drawn high-water lines around Bristol, Philadelphia, and two coastal cities in Florida.[28]

Other fiber data art

In 2005, the Knitting Map, a European Capital of Culture project in Cork, Ireland, recorded the city's daily temperatures and citizen walking patterns to create a "fiber representation of the city."[6]

Sarah-Marie Belcastro uses knitting to explore mathematics, such as knitting a "non-orientable surface of genus 5".[33] Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer call these types of data artists "mathekniticians".[34]

See also

References

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  12. ^ a b "About". The Tempestry Project. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  13. ^ "What's Going On in This Graph?". New York Times. 21 February 2019. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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