HOW DID THIS PROJECT COME ABOUT?
My name is Jorge Fusaro Martínez, I am an artist, photographer, and cultural entrepreneur, born and raised in Puerto Rico. I started this project 48hrs after the passing of Hurricane Maria, and a week after Hurricane Irma. Both of these hurricanes have destroyed the island and crushed our spirits, yet we are not alone in this struggle. For the past two months, rampant natural disasters produced by climate change and global warming have affected: Texas, Florida, USBVI, St. Marteen, Barbuda, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Chile, India, California, Nepal, and Italy. The earth is raging and we are paying the consequences of the lack of ethical practices that protect, nurture, and respect nature.
As of now, we have no electric nor water service in Puerto Rico. There is a shortage of supplies, food, water, diesel, and gas. Armed gangs are looting, assaulting and stealing. There is chaos and we are on a brink of a humanitarian crisis. In the middle of this crisis, I’ve managed to access WIFI and charge my phone at a nearby oasis were federal agents, CNN and CBS have set their operations.
Every Puerto Rican resident (currently there are about 3.5M people) has been affected, one way or another. We all suffer and we all process the pain differently. We are instructed to stay home and let the experts and relief agents do their work. The strict, 6pm-6am curfew , plus no electricity and WIFI, has given my wife and I plenty of time to think, process the crisis, support and seek ways to help others, and write. One of my responses to process the passing go Irma and Maria, is launch, Artists for Climate Change, so we can all raise awareness through the visual arts and contribute to the wellbeing of nature and future generations. If global warming continues, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, glacier melts, fires, water pollution will be more common and stronger.
Despite the local crisis, I am confident about three things: we will not be the same people, we will think differently about climate change, and but we will come back stronger and more united than ever.
Thanks for visiting and participating in this project.
As of now, we have no electric nor water service in Puerto Rico. There is a shortage of supplies, food, water, diesel, and gas. Armed gangs are looting, assaulting and stealing. There is chaos and we are on a brink of a humanitarian crisis. In the middle of this crisis, I’ve managed to access WIFI and charge my phone at a nearby oasis were federal agents, CNN and CBS have set their operations.
Every Puerto Rican resident (currently there are about 3.5M people) has been affected, one way or another. We all suffer and we all process the pain differently. We are instructed to stay home and let the experts and relief agents do their work. The strict, 6pm-6am curfew , plus no electricity and WIFI, has given my wife and I plenty of time to think, process the crisis, support and seek ways to help others, and write. One of my responses to process the passing go Irma and Maria, is launch, Artists for Climate Change, so we can all raise awareness through the visual arts and contribute to the wellbeing of nature and future generations. If global warming continues, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, glacier melts, fires, water pollution will be more common and stronger.
Despite the local crisis, I am confident about three things: we will not be the same people, we will think differently about climate change, and but we will come back stronger and more united than ever.
Thanks for visiting and participating in this project.