DM Witman has been exploring the realms of grief and mourning in regards to climate change which she calls ecological grief. The issue of climate change is huge and many of us do not think about it at all as for instance 18-24 year olds spend more than seven hours a day in front of a screen of some sort and check their phone every 12 minutes!. Her goal in creating “A Guide to Loss and Grieving in the Age of the Anthropocene”* believes that there are those that are grieve and mourn the losses and if they are artists, or poets or activists that they can serve as the conduits for a collective experience to develop a stronger sense of love and commitment to the places,
the systems, the flora and fauna that inspire, nurture and sustain us. Deanna Witman is an award-winning artist-educator exhibiting nationally and internationally. She is an Assistant Professor at Unity College and an instructor at Maine Media. She is Managing Editor of Hawk & Handsaw-The Journal of Creative Sustainability
www.dmwitman.com
From Wikipedia: The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is a current event, and is one of the most significant extinction events in the history of the Earth. This ongoing extinction of species coincides with the present Holocene epoch, and is a result of human activity.
