Unnatural Order Painting

Large abstract artwork in acrylic, ink and oil bar on high quality linen. The artwork has a great effect un-stretched and can be hung as it is like a large carpet. (But of course it can be stretched on wood or aluminum.) Inspired by the book 'Unnatural Order' by Jim Mason. This book is a provocative search for the basic beliefs of Western culture that feed racism, sexism, animal exploitation, and domination of the natural world. Nature writer Jim Mason begins this search nearly 10,000 years ago when plants and animals were first domesticated — or brought under human control. Until this time, people saw themselves as members of the natural world. They saw animals as kindred beings and the living world as full of ensouled powers. The main theme of the book is that animals are much more important than we think. Under our current worldview, animals are trivial — except when they are useful. They are inferior beings and, we think, they could not be important to human society except as food and slaves. But for hundreds of millenia, animals have been very much on the human mind. Animals have fed the mind and the imagination — especially our ideas about the living world — for a very long time. Our cultural heritage, then, is one that alienates us from the living world, one that regards it as a slave. This stunts human empathy and crushes any sense of kinship with other life. Moreover, our nature-dominating worldview causes some dominant people to regard women, people of color, and others as inferior, as closer to nature than to humanity. It also causes us to regard as inferior the physical, emotional, sexual and other “animal” aspects of human life, for these remind us of our closeness to animals and nature. Mason contends that these dominionist views are at the bottom of society’s ever-deepening social and ecological crises. It is vital, he believes, to revive that long-lost sense of kinship with animals and nature. This artwork has been exhibited (see image) in a group show; Art Expo in Fabrique Ludique 7-9 September 2018. Title and signature on front. Varnished for protection. The canvas will be shipped in a tube. The artwork is ready to be hung as it is with metal hooks, but can be stretched on wood/aluminum or framed behind glass.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:82.7 W x 78.7 H x 0.2 D in

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