Digital Artist Shows How Climate Change is Affecting Our World

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Julia B
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Creative director and digital artist Randy Richards is best known for his time-traveling images, where the viewer can see scenes captured between seasons. According to the artist, his style was born from paintings created between 1996 to 2002 when he began doing side-by-side collages, which later evolved into 3D cubes.

“I want my pieces to remind people that our existence is so very short in the overall expanse of time and to enjoy the beauty of life in a single moment. I try and capture different moments in time at a specific location to allow us to experience some times that have past us,” the artist shared with Bored Panda and added that although he mostly does his work digitally, he still likes to create paintings as well.

His latest series titled Melting Alaskan Glaciers depicts climate changes that happened since the last century. Richards is offering his images for free-use for those who need to communicate about climate issues.

To see some of his work, check out the gallery below or follow him on Instagram for future updates.

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Melting Alaskan Glaciers Series – Beautiful but scary how they changed over time! Artist is donating these images free for use to anyone who needs to communicate about global warming and the environmental crisis. My name is Randy Richards and I created this series of digital iceberg images in my digital art style for the sole purpose of helping educate and communicate about the world's big climate change problems so that more might take action before it's too late. According to NASA Research, 97% of scientists agree that greenhouse gases, both natural and created by humans are the main cause for climate change and global warming. Greenhouse gases cause; melting ice caps resulting in rising sea levels & flooding, global warming, droughts, wild fires, super hurricanes and much more… NASA reports that temperatures have risen 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit which is linked directly to 13.3% of arctic ice reduction per decade. That is why I started with this series of icebergs that have disappeared over this past century. I am allowing anyone with a need to communicate about the environment, the rights to use any of this Iceberg series of images at no cost. This idea seemed like the perfect use on my art style – to try and help the world. I usually shoot my own images for this style that I have been producing for over 20 years where I combine shots taken at different times of the same scene, from the same vantage point, but had to source and get rights to these individual past images to properly show the impact time has had on these once large glaciers! I digitally combined the supplied images and created each piece in my style. Legally, ALL of the credits and source shown on each piece, MUST appear on all items published online or print for anyone using any of the images. Follow me on instagram for more future posts about the environment If enough of us take action, we may be able to make a difference! #globalwarming ##environmentalist #environmentallyfriendly #contemporaryart #contemporaryphotography #whitneymuseum #mymodernmet #leonardodicaprio #environmental #moma #themet #boredpanda #environmentalcrisis #digitalart #digitalartist #greenpeaceinternational

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Low and High Tide, Randy Richards, 2015

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