Hurricane House

Here are some prelimiary studies for a sculpture project that I'm planning on creating, the Baltimore Hurricane House. It is meant to be completed as an homage to global warming, and the unintended consequences of the carbon footprint that each and every one of us contributes to. The project, in a nutshell, is to create this monument of what a structure in Baltimore might look like when subjected to the incredible forces of a hurricane. It highlights an idea of the unthinkable happening; hurricanes are a very real and tangible fear for a large population in our country and I would like extend this idea to a place that wouldn't normally need to worry about a hurricane striking. The project is not meant to instill fear, rather, the object is to point out the growing evidence that global warming is contributing to the increase in both the strength and frequency of hurricanes in the Northern Atlantic weather system.