FEMA Flood Map Lightbox #1
© 2021
Media: acrylic on woven polyester fabric on lightbox
Location: in the studio
Hover/tap here for Price $2900
26.5 x 18.5 x 2.5 inches
The Flood Map from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a part of Palm Beach, FL, shows the areas that they figure will have an annual 1% chance of flooding, or once in every 100 years. This determination is now suspect given the effects of climate change.
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For those with low vision:
This is a semi-transparent map mounted (stretched) on a lightbox that shows in bright colors the areas of predicted flooding. It is a map from FEMA printed onto translucent fabric, and then painted with transparent acrylic paints. The ocean and bay are painted in cobalt blue and the land area to be flooded in a cyan blue, with the unflooded grass and trees in pale yellow green and pale sap green, streets and paved areas in pale grey/beige, and some border areas in bright yellow orange. All around this map is a graphic border in neon chartreuse green which depicts a repeated wave pattern interspersed with the simple glyph of a house, alternating with a glyph of a human figure with their arms upstretched in a universal signal for help.
