Aeolian Chart is a watercolor series that takes inspiration from the wind, a force connecting distant people and places. Using contemporary and ancient wind forecasting technologies, nautical charts, historical records, literature, and climate databases as a point of departure, the images depict wind direction and speed in a particular region in the world.
However, the textual and numerical information that normally appears in such forecasts is replaced with world events in maritime and climatological history. As a result, a new map emerges, one in which the wind movement of the present overlaps with past events.
This work references Mareel, a four-century old bioluminescent bacterial phenomenon that occurs in large areas of the ocean and Hunga Haʻapai a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago, which generated the largest atmospheric explosion recorded by modern instrumentation in 2021.