Time Once Upon Us is an ongoing interdisciplinary project by Pam McKinlay that entwines climate data, weaving, light and sensing technologies to make rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, CO₂ increase and planetary boundary breaches materially visible and emotionally tangible. In a world shaped by warming oceans and destabilising cryospheric systems, her work returns again and again to a simple question: how do we sense what is changing slowly, almost beyond perception, yet reshaping our everything?

Pam McKinlay (Tangata Tiriti) has a background in applied science and history of art. As an artist, she works in collaboration with other artists locally and nationally, in community outreach and education projects around the theme of climate change, sustainability and biodiversity. She is an independent curator and convenor of the Art+Science Project based in Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand. McKinlay has exhibited regularly in the Art+Science Project and touring exhibitions as well as New Zealand International Science Festival and New Zealand Festival of Naure. She has been shortlisted four times as a finalist in the New Zealand Contemporary Textile Arts Awards.

Time Once Upon Us is in the White Box Gallery for the whole month of July.

For more about Pam McKinlay's work, see Flows Like Water, now available as an ebook at mebooks.nz.