
Using captured carbon to make art—w/ Annalee Levin of Captured Carbon Studio
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When artist Annalee Levin learned about carbon capture on the Reversing Climate Change podcast, the idea captured her imagination. Knowing that the technology exists to capture and store CO2 in concrete, for example, Annalee set out to find a way to make art out of materials containing captured carbon.
Today, Annalee is the textile, hand embroidery, and sculpture artist behind Captured Carbon Studio, a space for exploring captured carbon as an art medium and avenue for educating the public about reversing climate change. She is also a chef-in-training, an experienced beekeeper and the first ever Artist-in-Residence at Carbon Upcycling Technologies. On this episode of the podcast, Annalee joins Ross to discuss her hands-on approach to making art and explain why she is drawn to physical, material crafts as opposed to other art forms.
Annalee describes how she came to make crayons out of recycled CO2 and shares what she is trying to communicate by using captured carbon in her art. Listen in to understand how organic and industrial materials coexist within Annalee’s carbon removal aesthetic and learn how you can support her work or create your own art using tools that reverse climate change.
Resources
Captured Carbon Studio on Instagram
Lorraine Smith on Reversing Climate Change EP044
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design
Carbon Upcycling Technologies on Reversing Climate Change EP078
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
Carbon Upcycling Pen-100 Nurdles & Talc
Carbon Upcycling Enhanced Fly Ash
Resources
This episode's page on the web: https://www.rosskenyon.com/p/s2e52-using-captured-carbon-to-make-31e
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Books from the show, at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/reversing-climate-change
My other show, Climate Workers Anonymous: https://www.climateworkersanonymous.com
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