HOPES / FEARS

Using local wind conditions as a barometer for the current socio-environmental climate.

Sitting between a tarot reading, a finger in the wind, true environmental change and doom-scrolling. Calm sunny days turning unexpectedly into a storm out of nowhere. Earth is unpredictable right now.

How it works:

The HOPES/FEARS flag gets raised.

A live feed from the flag's nearest weather station is visually represented through the live HOPES/FEARS animation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the duration of the flag being raised.

This can be viewed through using your camera on your smartphone to scan the QR code or by going to www.christopherjarratt.com/hopes-fears-live 

The faster the wind, the faster the animation. Watch for a while for changes in conditions. Use it to find out what conditions are like in other villages, towns and cities.

Every location that the flag is raised will be archived and continue to have a live feed animation so you can continue to check in on local socio-environmental conditions according to the wind.

If you would like to raise HOPES/FEARS and add your live conditions to the project, email contact@christopherjarratt.com 

Powered by the wind, HOPES/FEARS is in-conversation with itself and simultaneously projecting its voice to the viewer both in person and online.

HOPES/FEARS looks to give a visual reading of the feelings and emotions we have been dealing with in recent years. In one moment everything seems possible, we have the ability to change, adapt, work together with the environment, communities, governments... and yet, in an instant, it all feels overwhelming, too far, out of reach. The yin and yang, opposite but interconnected forces. Hopes and Fears.