Shifting Baseline Syndrome

With Shifting Baseline Syndrome, Eleanor McGough brings variations of her hand cut paper insects to the gallery along with paintings from her ongoing series of vanishing landscapes. 

Shifting Baseline Syndrome is a term used to describe the shifting threshold for our willingness to accept increasing levels of environmental degradation as normal. Recent studies show rapid insect population decline. Once thought ubiquitous, flying insect populations now appear to be dwindling dramatically. This has broad implications for the delicate balance of the food chain, and the health of our planet.

Opening and showing concurrently with Life Forms, work by Laura Stack