Maddi Bacon Artist

My art practice has been many things, but lately I have focused primarily on writing and illustrating comics. The combination of images and text allows for a unique art form that can tackle complex and emotional topics. It allows for narratives to be told in ways they couldn’t exist in any other form. Complex environmental topics can be more easily explained with a combination of images and text. Above all, comics are stories. When you are looking to inspire dialogue and change, people are usually not motivated by simple facts and data points. They are inspired by stories and narratives that attach emotion to facts, or make concepts relatable to them. I have worked for conservation corps, the Forest Service and the National Park Service, doing a variety of projects including invasive species removal, fencing, native planting, trail building, and wildfire. This work has led to a much more intentional and meaningful art practice. Most of my comics are inspired by work that I’ve done. I create stories that aren’t just a nature documentary talking about the environment, but stories that draw connections between nature and gender, the environment and public health, and climate change and what humans deem as valuable.

 

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