{"title":"Climate Change Art","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhen Dave Curtis picked up a brush in 2017, he was navigating the wreckage of his own life — a difficult divorce that had upended everything familiar. What emerged from that private storm was not autobiography but prophecy: a series of twelve paintings that translate personal dissolution into planetary reckoning. The Aquarium Series is climate change art at its most visceral — creatures wrenched from their ecosystems, seascapes turned inside out, a world holding its breath beneath rising water. Curtis, a Northern Virginia painter with four decades of surrealist, symbolist practice, channeled Jungian archetypes and Lovecraftian creatures into images that feel less like commentary and more like testimony from inside the flood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat body of work has since been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown, and lives in collections that include a Smithsonian national museum and the historic USS Yorktown. Fellow artist and publisher David Heatwole — Curtis’s longtime collaborator and champion — responded to the series by publishing it as a limited-edition book, “A Dive into Sir Real’s Aquarium,” in a run of only 400 copies, 200 of them signed and numbered by the artist. That rarity is intentional. The Aquarium Series was never meant to be easy to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWear the Work: Climate Change Art for the Conscious Collector\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe This Artist’s Dream merchandise collection brings the Aquarium Series into your daily life without diminishing what it asks of you. These are not decorations — they are environmental art objects designed to carry genuine weight. The apparel, tote bags, and climate change art prints in this collection reproduce Curtis’s images with the fidelity the work demands, translated onto materials you reach for every morning and carry into the world. A tote printed with a Curtis Aquarium image becomes a quiet provocation at a farmer’s market or museum shop; a graphic tee worn in the city carries the full strangeness of his post-apocalyptic seascape into ordinary afternoon light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis line was conceived with art museum gift shops in mind — spaces where people arrive already open to being moved, already prepared to carry something meaningful home. Curtis’s aquarium series art occupies that precise territory: work that earns its place on a body or a wall not merely as imagery but as a sustained argument about where we find ourselves and what we owe the world we have inherited. The dark irony, the inverted ecosystems, the creatures displaced from everything that once sustained them — this is climate change art that does not soften its subject. It asks the question and lets it linger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eExplore the collection and find the piece that carries the argument forward for you.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sir-real-and-the-aquarium-collectors-edition-print-set-and-book-by-virginia-artist-dave-curtis","title":"Sir Real and The Aquarium Collectors Edition Print Set and Book by Virginia Artist Dave Curtis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.collectorsedition.sirrealstudios.com\/products\/sir-real-and-the-aquarium-print-set\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Collectible Print Set by Falls Church, Virginia surreal Symbolist Dave Curtis.  The development of these Sir Real products were overseen by artist David Heatwole.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eSir Real and The Aquarium Collectors Edition Print Set and Book\u003c\/a\u003e by Virginia Artist Dave Curtis.  This very special collection by this Falls Church artist was overseen and designed by The Art Studios of David F. Heatwole and produced and published by \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.themainartery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Printers of Fine Art, The Main ARTery Press and Publishing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Main ARTery Press.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cquillbot-extension-portal\u003e\u003c\/quillbot-extension-portal\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis \"Sir Real\" project was very exciting for Heatwole and his team. Heatwole's studios designed SirRealStudios.com to be able to promote the products we have designed and produced with artist Dave Curtis. We took the twelve works of art making up the Sir Real and The Aquarium series and found great characters that we could expand upon by also designing sculptures that were 3D printed.  We also created the book and encouraged Curtis to craft some words to go with the imagery.  The final product of the limited edition board book and the booked print set we are very pleased with and of course we are very pleased with the sculptures we have been able to develop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"This.Artists.Dream","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41412323475665,"sku":"","price":1499.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/6927\/9185\/products\/verticledisplayofprints-box-book.jpg?v=1675203310"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/6927\/9185\/collections\/cover_for_dive_into_the_Aquarium.jpg?v=1792435123","url":"https:\/\/thisartistsdream.com\/collections\/climate-change-art.oembed","provider":"This Artists Dream","version":"1.0","type":"link"}