Yellow Palm Tree Painting

This painting is part of the series "How to Speak About the Earth", which was created in Spain in spring 2020. The indistinguishable blending of nature and culture into hybrid objects is at the centre of the series "How to Speak about the Earth", which was started in spring 2020. At its heart is an engagement with Bruno Latour's analysis of the climate crisis in "Facing Gaia". The painting "Yellow Palm Tree" is done with gouache, spray paint and acrylics on paper. Man, as a naive modern observer, believes himself to be in no way connected to nature, over which, however, he can freely dispose. The contemporary crises show the true extent of this error. Only slowly are we grasping the true scope of our connection. Are all the pretty shores already covered by plastic waste, the oil slicks of the last shipping accident or part of a vacation resort? Nature, despite its evolutionary change dominated by unchanging laws, as a reliable and sometimes untouched counterpart of man no longer exists. Did it ever exist? The ecological crisis is not only a crisis of nature, it is to the same extent a crisis of culture. Man and nature are connected, six degrees of separation. This applies to the relationship with a market in Wuhan as well as with the trees of the Amazon, the ducks of the Danube or the melting ice in Greenland. The flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil can trigger a tornado in Texas; a coffee cup carelessly discarded in Texas can fatally strike that butterfly. We live in the midst of an intricate network of countless things and living things, entangled in the global effects of the Capitalocene. This indistinguishable blending of nature and culture into hybrid objects is at the heart of my work. 

Painting:Gouache on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:33.1 W x 23.4 H x 0 D in

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