STREMPLE FINE ART, LLC.

Statement
I am a visual artist exploring the relationships between science, technology, and the cultural symbols that bind humanity to nature. Natural rainbows—generated by the sun—are both a language of the stars and a scientific key: astronomers, physicists, and chemists use dispersion and spectrum to interpret the universe.
To work inside that intersection, I constructed an optically clear dispersive lens of my own design that allows me to “render in rainbows.” I use only naturally dispersed sunlight, grounding my stories in physical reality even as they move through myth.
Across cultures, the rainbow is a universal symbol of hope and a bridge between humanity and the divine, reality and myth. I see artists as that bridge.
I look to prehistory for guidance in confronting environmental crisis. Cultures older than 10,000 years lived in intimate relation to their ecosystems, and their earliest storytelling traditions were rooted in the realities of the physical world. Sites such as Lascaux in France and the Cueva de los Manos in Argentina reveal early makers of dreams and myth who never separated spirit from environment.
Using another cultural symbol—the telescope—I create sculptural optical instruments inspired by the handprints of the Cueva de los Manos, referencing them in my Impressions of the Body series. Through this work I aim to restore ancient cultural links to nature and to question the modern concept of “humanity,” which implies separation from the natural world.
Working across photography, painting, sculpture, optics, and short film, I treat the movement between mediums as a way to strengthen the whole practice.
My current series, Climate Spheres, are globes built from brass, aluminum, wood, marble, crystal, porcelain, and embedded monitors. They display real-time data from Earth’s most vulnerable ecosystems, making planetary change tangible and immediate.
In an era of fragmented activism and rising disinformation, we face a climate-awareness crisis as much as a climate crisis. Without new forms of communication and symbolic cohesion, lasting change will remain out of reach. Climate Spheres proposes a unifying catalyst—an artwork that brings science, culture, and hope into the same shared instrument.