In The Warming, artist Barry Sutton conjures a world without us, an impossible post-human roadtrip across the American West. ‘Shot’ in infrared black and white, its glowing landscapes, abandoned churches, drive-in theaters, mansions, mobile homes and roadside motels are ravaged by uninhabitable temperatures or reclaimed by the water. Sutton’s work invites us to contemplate the idea of impermanence in a series of inconceivable images that is both beautiful and haunting- it’s title naming both the event itself, as well as our own slow acclimatization to comprehend the existential threat of its possibility.
