Suprina Troche and Susan Hillary Shapiro, Esq.

Water-Related Art and Imagery

Suprina Troche and Susan Hillary Shapiro, Esq.

Water-Related Art & IMagery

Ode to the Albatross

By Suprina Troche.
http://www.suprinasculpture.com/

Suprina’s inspiration came from learning about the Albatross’ nesting practices from a Albatross the film by Chris Jordan, a globally known documentarian, https://www.albatrossthefilm.com/watch-albatross.
The Albatross mothers scoop up water to feed their young, without realizing it is littered with plastic waste – toothbrushes, lighters, etc. which kill the chicks. Chris gave Suprina a box of those plastic pieces which came out of the dead baby chicks. This piece is a collage of those objects.

A Day At the Beach – Now and Then

By Susan Hillary Shapiro https://www.susanhillaryproductions.com/

Made of recycled plastic, needles, and animal skulls, this piece is inspired by the ongoing killing and choking of our oceans with plastic waste and humans lack of care for the very nature and beauty that supports life.

Life or Death

By Susan Hillary Shapiro https://www.susanhillaryproductions.com/

The choice today between life and death of our species today is clear. Either we chose clean, sustainable, inexpensive renewable energy solar, wind and geothermal to survive with clean air and water, or we continue funding dirty, deadly and expensive nuclear and fossil fuels to pollute our air and water, and make the planet more and more uninhabitable. The future generations, the apple babies, inherit the legacy of our choices.

This piece was initially painted for an Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition event at the Jacob Burns Center and has since been used in successful postcard campaigns which helped to close Indian Point. Currently, thousands of these postcards are being sent to the New York Governor and other legislators.

Thermal Plume

aerial infra-red photo by GER/Spectro Tech, Inc 1998.

The image is an aerial infra-red of the Hudson River showing water flow from the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in Buchanan, New York. It stretches for three miles south to the Haverstraw Bay in Rockland County. The image was captured in 1988 while Indian Point was operating and shows the large amount of heat – thermal pollution – being emitted into the Hudson River from Indian Point. This shows clearly that nuclear energy is not zero emissions.

This image has been effectively displayed at many public hearings. One hearing that especially stands out is, during the desalination hearings, when after hours of public testimony this image woke up the Public Service Commissioners who upon seeing it for the first time were shocked and took note.

Susan Hillary Shapiro, Esq.
Environmental Lawyer & Water Protector

Susan is a New York State environmental law attorney and water protector. She brought groundbreaking litigation which helped close the Indian Point nuclear reactors; participated in President Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste; was a fellow at Environmental Protection Agency; and extensively researched and lectured on climate change impacts of nuclear energy. She has been involved in high-profile Hudson Valley environmental cases, including protecting major interstate Sole Source Aquifer system, eminent domain, overdevelopment, and annexation disputes.

As an award winning filmmaker and painter her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Sundance, Tribeca, and Cannes film festivals. Since 2010 she has run permaculture farm in the Hudson Valley. She is of ecosystem thinker who moves between courtrooms, fields, and creative spaces with the same purpose: protection, stewardship, and expression.

She received her BA in creative writing from University of Pennsylvania, BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Juris Doctor from Cardoza School of Law. She is a New York State Bar member and currently operates Rockland Environmental Group.