HELP ME
Earthlines, Deadlines, Lifelines

Art is a vehicle through which issues may assume an image, promoting a climate conducive to change. Art can precipitate action. HELP ME: DEADLINES, LIFELINES, focuses on a cry for help from Earth and visually documents the choices available to support the life-giving systems of nature or to destroy them. HELP ME addresses environmental issues.

All of the artists represented here have a common bias towards a conservationist attitude and share a common desire to be socially effective proponents of environmental awareness. The decisions as to which aspects of the environment should be addressed were based on the personal interests of each artist. The artists, representing each of the four western provinces, reflect regional issues while concurring on general environmental themes.

HELP ME is a duality in itself; it is painted on paper that comes from trees whose loss we will feel with the advent of the greenhouse effect and is painted with chemically derived pigments whose manufacture contributes to the pollution of our environment. HELP ME is not self- righteous in its premise, but is part of the dilemma of our time - negotiating with nature to remain alive and vital.