In 2019, artist Devra Freelander (@devrafreelander) was commissioned to create an installation at Meta’s New York office. Later that year, she was killed in a traffic accident, leaving the project unfinished. In her travels to places like the Arctic and the Antarctic, Devra saw the decline of our planet firsthand. As her father told us, “All of that began to draw her attention to the landscape and that just triggered everything. I think that changed her life.” As a tribute to Devra’s life and in honor of her artistic vision and climate activism, the Estate of Devra Freelander, which consists of her family, partner, friends and collaborators, completed this installation with the support of Open Arts. They translated Devra’s original notebook sketches using a computer algorithm that mimics the movement of tectonic plates, in order to preserve Devra’s authorial voice. Titled “Neon Ranges/Sky Gradient, in Honor of Devra Freelander,” the work converges and collapses solar silhouettes and geologic formations into metallic lines bathed in neon gradients that evoke sunrise and sunset, epitomizing the artist's work in both spirit and form. Devra's signature systems of color collide with digital and geologic forms that “represent two ends of [her] experiential spectrum," in the artist's words. @tangible.space @clayore @hilliarygabryel @alison_k_hines @jonah_f @matt_evans_in_the_simulation