Thursday, April 3, 2014

We Are

There is a significant connection between our planet and the creatures that live on it. Albert Einstein once said “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” And so the closer you look at art, the more you will understand, or the better you will understand. There is a relationship between everything we encounter; everything was born from the earth. We are born from the earth.

Is nature beautiful? Of course. Is it exhilarating? Sometimes. Maybe it depends on the location or time of day. Or maybe you have to physically be there to appreciate it. I know for me, it lacks spontaneity and eventually becomes unexciting, unless there is a miracle or disaster of some sort. Carl Warner, Christoffer Relander and Jean-Paul Bourdier tell this story through the human body. Linking nature and the human figure by using parts of the human body and depicting them as landscapes and various pieces of nature are their way of suggesting that we, as occupants on planet Earth, are a part of the cycle of life.


Warner is an artist from England who started off creating and drawing imaginary worlds as a child. Relander is a Finnish photographer famous for his work using multiple exposures in camera of man and nature. Bourdier is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley who photographs the painted bodies of women who seem to blend into the background. The literal connection made by these artists between nature and the human body tells the story of where we came from.

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