2025

GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL EXHIBITION

KAYE SAVAGE

KAYE SAVAGE

(Spartanburg, South Carolina)

Phenological Mismatch: Broadtailed Hummingbird

mixed media (handmade abaca paper, mineral pigments, original photograph transfers, encaustic), 10 x 8 inches (11 x 9 x 1.25 inches framed)

$375 + $26.25 tax + $55 shipping fee =

$456.25 Total Price

Artist Statement:

Phenology is the study of timing in ecological systems – when in the year do leaves emerge, flowers bloom, seeds sprout, insects hatch, birds migrate? The factors that lead individual organisms to advance through their life cycle at specific times of year vary, and may include temperature, moisture, and/or light conditions (“cues”). Some of these cues are now being disrupted by the acceleration of climate change due to human activities such as burning fossil fuels. The broad-tailed hummingbird, which migrates from Mexico to breed in more northern latitudes, is potentially at risk. Flowering of some of its nectar sources in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado is occurring earlier in the spring than it used to, but the birds can’t predict that from their wintering grounds in Mexico, and are beginning to arrive to their breeding grounds with fewer blooms remaining for them to feed on.

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