Patrick Martinez has a message for Boston—one that can’t be ignored. Through striking neon works and layered landscape paintings, he spotlights urgent issues, from climate change to housing insecurity, in ways that spark necessary conversations.

We sat down with Cannupa Hanska Luger to cross the space-time continuum, learn about the biological result of increased oxygen in the atmosphere, and hear how he’s putting his extensive blanket collection to use.

Beatriz Cortez shares about her first piece in the Venice Biennale this year, a trip to the Arctic, Boston’s history of whaling, and more in this interview with Boston Public Art Triennial.