Priya Sharma

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Carbon Cycle

Thirty years of planetary warming, rendered as a wall-sized ascending staircase of color. The left side begins in deep cerulean and teal — the early measurements, the cooler years, blocks of blue stepping upward in clean geometric bands. Through the center, the palette transitions through olive green and pale yellow, each band slightly taller than the last as the values climb. By the right side, the blocks have turned to deep orange and crimson, their warm glow casting light upward onto the gallery ceiling. Data labels line the bottom edge — years, perhaps, or measurement stations. Track lighting illuminates the installation from above. The piece reads as a bar chart, as a landscape, as a warning. No annotation needed. The color tells the entire story: blue becoming red, cool becoming warm, the steady rightward march of a planet heating up, presented with the clean geometric precision of someone who believes data deserves to be beautiful even when the story it tells is not.