Sky Islands

Sky Islands
Creator	Catalina Giraldo
Year	2018
Bio	Catalina is a Visual Artist and Biologist. She has been experimenting photography, film and animation of the Earth. Her interest is the use of video and mapping projection to envision past, present and future ecosystems. She thinks that visualizing the history of Earths'ecosystems is the first step to bestrew dreams and create potential future realities with past and original environments in balance with current human civilization. Her philosophy of life is to contribute to environmental education and to plant seeds of consciousness to treat our planet with love and respect.
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Website	http://www.catalhinagiraldo.com/

Sky Islands: A time travel of the Andes Mountains is a 3D animation and photography to envision one chapter of the ecological history of the Northern Andes Mountains of South America. In the times we are living today, the anthropogenic global warming is affecting not only our human species but also the whole species and inhabitants of the planet Earth. For this reason, this project seeks to visualize how the Paramos ecosystem in the Andes mountains took at least 2 million years of evolution. This visualization opens a door to travel in a time machine, from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene as a first step toward opening minds of its importance, and to implant a concern and post a question: Are we still on time to avoid losing more than 2 million years evolution of an extraordinary ecosystem, a refuge of unique diversification and a hotspot of biodiversity in the Planet Earth?

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