Sitting at the National Gallery of Victoria amid Liquid skies/Gyrwynt, the large-scale installation by Triennial artist Franziska Furter, as part of the Let’s talk about the weather series, I feel strangely at home.

Liquid skies visualises vibrant infrared satellite images of hurricanes. This soft, colourful rug invites us to rest and consider our place within the destructive landscape it represents.

Invited by Tanya Ha’s insights to reflect on hope in the climate emergency, the ambience feels strangely familiar. Folding the playfulness and colourfulness of the art piece within its dark message, I realise this is where I often sit, reconciling the tension between climate action and rest.

This is home for me.

This is where climate human was born.

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