The artist turns the climate graphics of scientists into watercolors and clearly shows what this means for the planet.

Gillian Pelto is a young explorer of Earth’s glaciers. She has an unusual hobby. She takes graphs with different data on how the climate on the planet is changing, and turns their lines into watercolor drawings, clearly showing how climate changes affect familiar landscapes and the inhabitants of the planet.

Pelto fell in love with the glaciers when she was sixteen years old and her father, an ice explorer, took her to work. Then she first saw them live. She also wanted to study them, and she received the education of a glaciologist. Alas, to her grief, she learned that the glaciers are disappearing, collapsing, and in many places where the landscape of the icy mountains was usual, now there are only stones and a swamp. Then she realized that the trouble affected not only the glaciers, and wanted to convey to people what she herself had very well seen in the graphs, numbers and dry lines of the reports. She uploads her drawings on Twitter. Continue reading →