The Last Snowball
In The Last Snowball, Emma Godfrey Pigott explores how we might rethink our relationship with nature by seeing matter not as passive, but as active and alive.
Inspired by New Materialism—a philosophical movement that argues matter has its own agency and is not merely shaped by humans—Pigott creates processes where humans and the natural world directly influence each other. By developing photographic film with fir needles or combining snowballs with photosensitive materials, patterns emerge that make this exchange visible. Sometimes a “faux snowball” forms—an artificial snowball produced by chemical reaction. The Last Snowball highlights the need to listen to a changing world, especially now that mountains and snowfields are disappearing due to climate change. Pigott invites viewers to shift their way of seeing and reconnect with the Earth.
