Burnt Lines

2021, climate change denier text written with artist-made bushfire ash ink on Yupo paper, 59.4 cm x 84.1 cm

Burnt Lines is a series where I rewrite my hate mail and hate tweets from climate change deniers using ink I made from the ashes of the Australian bushfires.

Ash and burned plants are ground into smaller pieces using a mortar and pestle.

Gum arabic and water are added to the mix to make ink.

I take passages from my hate mail and tweets and compose them on A4 paper.

After vector tracing them on Illustrator, I create a stencil to laser cut on A1 paper.

This stencil is what I use to trace the text using my ash ink and a cockatoo feather, ensuring that I can make multiples.

*Burnt Lines No. 2: The term “hysterically histrionic” may be apt here.* (2021). Artist-made ash ink on Yupo paper, 59.4 cm x 84.1 cm.

*Burnt Lines No. 3: Arctic: stable for past half-decade, Antarctic: not melting at all.* (2021). Artist-made ash ink on Yupo paper, 59.4 cm x 84.1 cm.

*Burnt Lines No. 4: She has a nasty habit of recruiting kids to her climate shenanigans.* (2021). Artist-made ash ink on Yupo paper, 59.4 cm x 84.1 cm.

*Burnt Lines No. 5: Warmist Catherine Young thinks trace CO₂ will result in you eating steak made out of worms. #climate #hysteria.* (2021). Artist-made ash ink on Yupo paper, 59.4 cm x 84.1 cm. Image by Catherine Sarah Young.

*Burnt Lines No. 6: Why has the taxpayer to continue funding these loons?* (2021). Artist-made ash ink on Yupo paper, 59.4 cm x 84.1 cm.

*Burnt Lines No. 8: Apocalypse-wear is a new field of the hordes of unemployable climate students in search of higher degrees.* (2021). Artist-made ash ink on Yupo paper, 59.4 cm x 84.1 cm.

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