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The 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 "Three Palm Leaves" 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.
2020
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21 W x 14 H x 1.25 D in
22.75 W x 15.75 H x 1.25 D in
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White Canvas
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In recent years I have focused on exploring structures such as thickets, embankments or overgrown slopes. Each project consists of a series of works on paper and canvas with a specific inspiration. My paintings build up layer upon layer, and since I'm working on many pieces at the same time, that can take years. New paintings are started unintentionally: some colored areas, patterns, overlays. Compositions are built up by overlapping layers of paint with the help of stencils and historic pattern rollers that I collected for the last twenty years. Over time, the layers entangle and certain atmospheres become perceptible. It is important to me to keep the random, accidental, and inappropriate visible, like spots and graffiti-like fragments, left-overs and stray lines. Words and patterns rely on repetition, like magic spells. In my works, I connect research in fields as mythology, feminism or ecology with individuality, emotion and beauty. Together, these structures evoke ambiguous natural sceneries I am interested in, familiar and alien at the same time. Throughout my career I blended my love of pattern with a deep interest in landscape and plants. This is what informs my work in the studio, in the garden, and as horticultural installations. I am radical in the most original sense of the word radicalis, which means rooted, connected to the earth, with plants at eye level. Here, the radical is a form of earthly attachment. I think of my paintings as growing and evolving, revealing themselves slowly.
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