Conceptual nominee

The Private Impact series asks each of us to take account of our individual impact on the environment. It is composed as collage made from photographs of body parts of a single individual, with light and dark pieces representative of the potential for positive or negative impact from our choices. We make an incredible amount of choices every single day - recycle, take transit, buy new clothes, a new phone, upgrade your microwave, turn on the air conditioning, throw away old shoes, skip composting this week, and so on. The first step to making a change is to take account of these decisions and thereby improve our awareness of how much potential for impact we have, even on an individual level.

Radina Droumeva is a mathematician turned artist. She creates works inspired by mindfulness, nature, and human psychology concepts. Her series are constructed by methodical process design ingrained from her scientific research background. She uses this aspect of her work approach to expose the power of the human imagination, and through it study the human relationship to our physical and social environment.