David Opdyke (born 1969) is an American visual artist who works in sculpture and installation.
Upon closer scrutiny, viewers realize that each postcard includes painted interventions such as wildfires, locust swarms, tornadoes and similar "natural disasters" depicting the effects of climate change.
Other painted additions include human responses or cultural interventions that feebly attempt to mitigate environmental disasters.
[2] In 2022, This Land was included in the exhibition, Someday, all this, at the Climate Museum's pop-up space in Soho, New York.
Monacelli Press/Phaidon published a monograph on his work, with essays by Maya Wiley and Lawrence Weschler.