--- title: Read Olafur Eliasson's Poem to Accompany His New TIME Cover description: In "Your planet seen from within" the artist evokes the power of seeing something familiar in a brand new way. canonical: https://time.com/6224840/olafur-eliasson-time-climate-poem/ author: Olafur Eliasson article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-10-27T11:00:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T14:56:30.215Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Read Olafur Eliasson's Poem to Accompany His New TIME Cover og:description: In "Your planet seen from within" the artist evokes the power of seeing something familiar in a brand new way og:url: https://time.com/6224840/olafur-eliasson-time-climate-poem/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta690ce4196b19755/698a36c0011682826e98263f/TIM221107.CoverGridOlafur-FINAL.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Climate Change Olafur Eliasson Time Magazine cover 221107 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Olafur Eliasson's Poem to Accompany His New TIME Cover twitter:description: In "Your planet seen from within" the artist evokes the power of seeing something familiar in a brand new way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta690ce4196b19755/698a36c0011682826e98263f/TIM221107.CoverGridOlafur-FINAL.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Olafur Eliasson's Poem to Accompany His New TIME Cover by [Olafur Eliasson](https://time.com/author/olafur-eliasson/) ## Olafur Eliasson Oct 27, 2022 11:00 AM UTC  Eliasson, left, and the two pages of the optical illusion TIME cover Eliasson, left, and the two pages of the optical illusion TIME coverArtwork by Olafur Eliasson for TIME by [Olafur Eliasson](https://time.com/author/olafur-eliasson/) ## Olafur Eliasson Oct 27, 2022 11:00 AM UTC _Contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson, a_ [_U.N. Goodwill Ambassador_](https://www.undp.org/goodwill-ambassadors/Olafur-Eliasson) _who is known for engaging viewers in his art, produced the image that appears on the cover of this issue of TIME. Eliasson has written the following piece to accompany the work._ **_Read more:_** [_The Story Behind TIME’s ‘Afterimage’ Climate Change Cover_](https://time.com/6224632/olafur-eliasson-time-magazine-cover) --- > “” --- _In memory of Bruno Latour (1947–2022)_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6224840/olafur-eliasson-time-climate-poem/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6224840/olafur-eliasson-time-climate-poem/"},"headline":"Read Olafur Eliasson's Poem to Accompany His New TIME Cover","datePublished":"2022-10-27T11:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T14:56:30.215Z","description":"In \"Your planet seen from within\" the artist evokes the power of seeing something familiar in a brand new way","url":"https://time.com/6224840/olafur-eliasson-time-climate-poem/","keywords":["climate change"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta690ce4196b19755/698a36c0011682826e98263f/TIM221107.CoverGridOlafur-FINAL.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olafur Eliasson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/olafur-eliasson/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta690ce4196b19755/698a36c0011682826e98263f/TIM221107.CoverGridOlafur-FINAL.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Climate Change Olafur Eliasson Time Magazine cover 221107","caption":"Climate Change Olafur Eliasson Time Magazine cover","creditText":"Artwork by Olafur Eliasson for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/climate-change/","name":"climate change"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6224840/olafur-eliasson-time-climate-poem/","name":"Read Olafur Eliasson's Poem to Accompany His New TIME Cover"}}]}] ```