The Great Delusion is an experimental video essay that explores connections between photography, the climate crisis, the frontier myth, and the American landscape imagination. Its title references Amitav Ghosh's book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. The video unfolds as an accumulation of fragmented, non-linear scenes, mirroring the cumulative nature of climate change itself. It is eratic at times, temporally unsure, and filled with earnest questions, didactic monologues (because we've got to start stating the facts!), and strange turns. Created in a weekend-long frenzy, the video emerged after years of wrestling with how to create work that captures the complexity, urgency, and strangeness of climate change.






Screenings/Exhibitions:

RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, RI, May, 2022