For artist Jill Pelto, communicating the seriousness of climate change has become a personal mission. She does so in an unconventional manner— by using graphs as the compositional basis for her art.At first glance, the pieces don’t look like they are based on hard data. But a closer look reveals an underlying grid of faint lines. One piece, for example, shows glaciers and water rendered in shades of blue. The peaks of each glacier reach toward the middle of the composition, becoming points on a graph. Other pieces make the melding of visuals and data more obvious. In an illustration of wolves near icy white glaciers, the peaks of the masses of ice are punctuated with dark dots that signify data points.

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