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STATEMENT OF WORK
Guided by eco-phenomenology, Bellamy considers the shifting ecology of Los Angeles and the devastating effects of climate change—fire season (heat and drought), pollution, environmental racism (the politics of shade)—exposing tensions between myths of sunshine and noir. Bellamy creates layered compositions of overlapping and intersecting representations of culture, history, plant species, and sun phases that result in dreamlike narratives or windows that give form and visibility to unseen or alternative possibilities. Often she pulls from her own archive of collected data—the LA Times sunrise, sunset, and moon phases; temperature charts; oral histories of her Afro-Cuban family’s experience of environmental and urban change—to create a research practice and visual lexicon that is constantly remediated and layered back into her art. Offering an expansive reflection on ecological connections that imagines new narratives and alternative futures.