EMERGE has been singing the praises of Jon Santos to anyone who'll listen for a while now. A former art director for Brand New School, Santos has extensive experience as a commercial graphic designer and fine artist as well. He's super talented and wildly prolific and his latest project is really powerful.

Teaming up with The Canary Project, a photographic project devoted to documenting climate change via powerful landscapes from environmental hotspots around the globe, Santos has created Dimensions Of Change a series of collaborative images utilizing motifs based on the utopian ideals of folks like Buckminster Fuller, a site specific sculpture and a video piece devoted to the theme of global warming and the issues it causes with water. The sculpture for instance, is encased in a block of ice in the gallery space, and as the ice melts, the sculpture comes apart. A time lapse video documents the process for those who visit after the "performance" is complete. Santos's other video piece depicts a 300 pound block of ice, which the artist had delivered to a park bench across the street from his Lower East Side studio. Filmed by a hidden camera, you can see the ice melt gradually, ultimately falling from the bench to the ground, where it is kicked and destroyed by passers by.

The exhibition runs through the end of this week at Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia, where it has been up since September 4. A billboard of the collaboration between Santos and the Canary Project will run in Philadelphia later this Fall to carry the message on once the exhibition is closed.

A really creative and compelling way to demonstrate the devastation caused by climate change, the "Dimensions of Change" makes truly moving art out of one of the greatest dilemmas facing humanity in the 21st Century.

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