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Digitalised Mockup Designs for Nicola’s TWR Globe:
(Above) 3D Digitalised Versions of Globe Mockup at different Angles
Top Section of Nicola’s TWR Globe Design
The top of the globe will feature cherubs rendered in different skin tones. Green wanted to challenge prevailing depictions of divinity, to raise the question if angels are meant to be the embodiment of innocence, love, and hope, or the representation of souls in heaven, why are they almost always male, and exclusively depicted as white? She will reimagine extravagant baroque and rococo imagery, so that the cherubs look like all children of the world, to reclaimed their magic and present an alternative image of the divine. This image also serves to commemorate the millions of lives lost during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
(Below) Examples of Green’s previous works
(left to right)
1 Angels V, paint and cellophane on canvas, H25.2 x W20.1 x D3.7 cm, 2008.
2 Globe of Angels, paint and cellophane on canvas, H30.6 x W30.6 x D1.9 cm, 2008.
3 All My Angels, Silkscreen on 100% cotton somerset white paper, Paper size:H56.5 x W77 Print size: H31 x W40, 2012.
4 Angels I, Painting on Mylar and board, Framed size: H26.9 x W32.4 x D4 cm, 2015.
5 Angels II, Painting on Mylar and board, Framed size: H26.9 x W32.4 x D4 cm, 2015.
6 Angels III, Painting on Mylar and board, Framed size: H26.9 x W32.4 x D4 cm, 2015.
7 Angels IV, Painting on Mylar and board, Framed size: H26.9 x W32.4 x D4 cm, 2015.
(Directly Above) The Angels will be printed onto vinyl, placed on the top of the globe, and then gold leafed.
Middle Section of Nicola’s TWR Globe Design
Green has championed the preservation and exploration of the Guiana Shield, the largest remaining pristine rainforest on earth. The middle portion of her globe will depict the beautiful greenery of the Iwokrama rainforest. Guyana’s rainforests store over 5.41 gigatonnes of carbon, making them a critical conservation area to mitigate global climate change.
The forest is not only the home of indigenous communities, but also a space for traditional culture intimately connected with the environment and an identity intertwined with nature. Traditionally, people have lived in harmony with the world around them, using ancestral knowledge to protect plants and animals as the caretakers of forests. Indigenous people contribute the least to carbon emissions globally, yet their dependence upon nature means that these communities are often the first to face the direct consequences of climate change.
Moreover, communities of colour are disproportionately affected by climate change. This section of the globe represents the inherent connection between racial justice. and climate justice.
Green’s globe will be the last in The World Reimagined trail, it represents the final step in the journey of discovery. It embodies the idea of reimagining the future, a society we can create when we have a full understanding of our shared history and acknowledgement of our past; and who we can be as people when we give full dignity to all.
(Above top) Drone photographs of Guyanese rainforest.
(Above lower) Middle band of rainforest around Nicola’s globe.
The drone footage has been captured to portray the density and vibrancy of the Guyanese rainforest. Guyana has the most pristine rainforest in the world and humanity has an opportunity to preserve it. This band will metaphorically act like a protective shield around the Globe.
Bottom Section of Nicola’s TWR Globe Design
The bottom of the globe is inspired by a historic mappa mundi, The World in a Cloverleaf, drawn by the German Protestant pastor, theologist, and cartographer Heinrich Bünting. The map was published in his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae - Travel through Holy Scripture in 1581.
To modern eyes, mappa mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, they were never meant to depict the relative areas of land and water. Maps are a wonderful storytelling tool, they reflect the time and place in which they are created, and help us to also find our way through the spiritual realm and make sense of the world around us in a deeper way. Mappa mundi are schematic and didactic, they represents a socially-constructed reality, which goes beyond a positivist knowledge of our Globe’s surface.
It also represents an imagining of the globe before colonialism. Modern maps of the world are inextricable from colonial expansion and conquest, used as tools for carving our territories along arbitrary lines.
The depiction of continents as petals is a reimagining of global territorial boundaries. Bünting used the petal shape before colonialism. The seven petal shapes in Nicola’s globe represent a reimagining of continental boundaries beyond colonial and political territories. The petal shape also roots us back to nature which is the origin of all territories on earth. More text on how the symbols in Nicola’s globe explore the relationship between racial justice and climate justice will follow.
(Above) Henrich Bünting’s Bunting Clover Leaf Map
