Global Courant 2023-04-16 04:48:00
Kelly Richardson, a digital artist and professor at the University of Victoria, creates art that visualizes the extinction crisis.
She creates unique images that show the influence of humans on the natural landscape using video, CGI, animation and sound.
“For me, it’s about engaging the audience in bigger conversations about where we’re all going,” Richardson said in a University of Victoria press release dated April 7. “There’s potential for people to seek out the work, see what it’s really about and potentially influence the general public in that way.”
One day she received a cryptic message from an art curator on Instagram.
“(She asked) what I thought about my work potentially being featured in a music video,” Richardson told CTV News Vancouver. “She didn’t say which band, she had to keep it very, very quiet.”
The band turned out to be Metallica and the music video was for their newest song, “72 Seasons”, on their upcoming album.
Three of Richardson’s pieces—titled “Origin Stories”, “Halo (2021)”, and “Origin Stories (AR) (2023)” were featured in the background of the band’s video.
Since the video launched on March 30, it has been viewed more than 4 million times on YouTube.
“The young version of me can’t quite figure out that my work is in their music video,” she said in the press release.
Click on the video at the top of this article to watch the full interview.
