Witness

After sneaking past a pair of Grizzlies, artist Jonathan Marquis leaps over a crag along a mountain ridgeline in Glacier National Park. Over the last nine years, as part of a lifelong journey to see and share how climate change is affecting his chosen community, Marquis has visited and drawn nearly 50 of Montana’s glaciers. By the end of summer 2022, the artist only had seven left to visit. A witness to a changing landscape, Marquis’ take is this: What if, instead of scaring people into addressing our fraught relationship with the planet, he used his art to show what the glaciers look like, right now? What if his drawings could show that glaciers aren't chunks of ice, they're beings, and therefore members of our global community of humans, plants, animals and elements, each worthy of life?
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