Triangulate opens at the Dunedin Fine Art Center Credit: Marius Nergard Pettersen

This Thursday, artists from across the globe converge on Dunedin when the Dunedin Fine Art Center hosts an artists' panel about one of its summer exhibits, Triangulate. This exhibit features 27 photographs from three nations — China, Norway and the United States. The artists intend their works to give the viewer a picture of humanity's bonds to land. They explore this theme in terms of refuge, resource, politics and the environment.

"Because human longevity on Earth depends greatly on our planet’s health, it is wise to consistently and honestly reassess the ever-changing personal, social, cultural and ethical relationships that we form as communities through our relationship to land," DFAC's director, Ken Hannon, said in a press release. "By drawing connections between three very different countries, each with separate development agendas in the 21st century, this exhibition attempts to reaffirm that humans around the globe share an ancient love for and dependence upon the land we inhabit together, despite both the very real, and the completely fabricated, differences between us."

The panel discussion will feature artists Robin Perry Dana (Florida), R. J. Kern (Minnesota), and Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin (California), Oddleiv Apneseth (Norway), as well as Chen Ronghui, Shi Yangkun and Zhou Pinglang (China). Curators Kirk Ke Wang (China/US) and Nathan Beard (US) will start the discussion. The artists — and the curators — will discuss their work but also what they learned by looking at the work of their fellow artists.

Dunedin Fine Art Center, 1143 Michigan Blvd., Dunedin | June 14: 6:30-8 p.m. | $5; free, DFAC members | 727-298-DFAC, dfac.org

This article appears in Jun 7-14, 2018.