Artist statement
Ali Raizin was born in Chicago, but has lived in San Francisco for the past 12 years. She uses experiential sculpture, sound, and visual art to explore the relationship between people and the physical world—especially in the face of an uncertain future.
Her current practice exists as a response to the sinister, hovering shadow of climate change.
She asks: how can/must joy, connection, and play coexist with grief, anxiety, and despair. How can we be gentle with ourselves while confronting our most difficult emotions?
Can physical spaces and somatic experiences redefine our personal relationship to the planet and each other? How do we clear a path, within ourselves, for collective climate action?
I wanted to say that I am sorry
I wanted to tell you that I am sorry juxtaposes the writing of climate activist/therapist Stuart Capstick over images and sounds of nature. His words—from a speculative letter written to his children in the near future—give an acute retelling of what it feels like to live at this moment, in a time of pre-traumatic climate stress. The text hangs heavy over white noise, bird sounds, and lush images of the outdoors.