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Title
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Listening to the Land, Listening to Each other: An Image of Hope in the Face of Climate Change
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Description
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The Great Salt Lake is drying up. Temperatures are rising. People are noticing. The phrases visible throughout the image (e.g., “I understand,” “I continually question,” “I fell in love with the vastness and diversity of the Utah wilderness,” “I want to give up,” “I must,” “I will”) were extracted verbatim from a narrative and reorganized according to Listening Guide procedures, a qualitative methodology. Rather than privileging chronology or explanation, the image foregrounds voice, affect, and internal movement. The repetition of “I understand” and “I will,” alongside moments of vulnerability such as “I want to give up,” illustrates the tension between exhaustion, responsibility, meaning-making, and persistence in the face of climate change. The landscape backdrop is not incidental. It situates the voice within place, suggesting that identity, distress, and hope are interwoven with environmental and cultural context. The visual merging of voice and land reflects how people experience climate-related meaning, responsibility, and emotional labor as inseparable from the physical environments they know and love.
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Date
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2026-01-09
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Creator
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Sales, Cat
