Everything We Have Done is Weather Now

Drawing loosely from a recent exhibition of the same name curated by Josephine Mills, Everything We Have Done is Weather Now, shares a collection of works by artist Lisa Hirmer that explore changing human relationships with weather, particularly as it entangles with lived experiences and understandings of climate change. Climate change is of course often associated with dramatic weather events and disruptions of seasonal norms; at the same time daily weather is often a site for locating and making sense of the material and cultural conditions of climate change. The photo-based works in this piece consider the ways in which climate change is registered, understood, shared, recorded through weather. The essay also considers how the works (which span from 2016-2022) act as a personal record of how understandings of climate change have themselves shifted alongside the rapidly changing climate.