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Apeiron (the infinite)
80 x 108" We are stardust. Everything that is needed to make up you and I and everything on Earth was created in space through the life-cycle of the stars. Chemical elements are the building blocks of everything. They are recycled over and over so that every atom in our bodies was once a part of something else: a river, a rock, a prehistoric animal, an ancient tree. |
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Man Was a Fish
80 x 108" All life on Earth emerged from the amniotic waters of ancient seas. The structures of our bodies still retain vestiges of our watery past, but what about our memory? Do traces of our early selves also reside in a collective unconscious? |
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Of the Earth II
80 x 108" Our mobility gives us a false sense of independence. We move around, fly across the world, launch into space. But in reality we are no less bound to Earth than the trees rooted in her soil. Our survival is inextricably linked to that of our World. We too are “of the earth”. |
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Weight of the World 80 x 108"
Like we humans, the diversity of life on Earth are sentient beings: animals fiercely protect their offspring, trees warn each other about insect attacks, plants breathe air and ‘hear’ water. Some rivers have now been accorded the legal status of a living human being. Polluting or damaging the rivers is legally equivalent to harming a person. Violations we commit against Nature are violations committed against our children, grandchildren, and all future generations. How are we okay with this? |
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Mother Earth Madonna
80 x 108" The mother-child bond transcends cultures and time. If we could remember that the ocean was our mother, would we still throw garbage into her? |
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Of the Earth I
32 x 44" We see ourselves reflected in the natural world around us. The growth pattern of a tree is strikingly similar to that of the human lung; hence the lungs of the world mirror our own. |
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