soul the dust of everyday life.
-Pablo Picasso-
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soul the dust of everyday life.
-Pablo Picasso-
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Mary Nicole is an information design student in Manila, Philippines.
She is currently employed part-time at SPARK Magazine.
A self-taught learner, she takes pleasure in taking photographs, writing, reading, and sketching.
She has an awful habit of being overly productive, overly lazy, overly sleepy or overly restless.
Feel free to drop her messages anytime. She'd like to know if humans do exist.
Saturday, October 23, 2010, 8:38 PM
The world in the hands of KATE MACDOWELL
We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough.
We want something else which can hardly be put into words--to be united with the beauty we see,
to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. – C.S. Lewis.
In my work this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our contemporary impact on the environment. These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops.
They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones.
In some pieces aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world.
In some pieces aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world.
In others, animals take on anthropomorphic qualities when they are given safety equipment to attempt to protect them from man-made environmental threats.
In each case the union between man and nature is shown to be one of friction and discomfort with the disturbing implication that we too are vulnerable to being victimized by our destructive practices.
In each case the union between man and nature is shown to be one of friction and discomfort with the disturbing implication that we too are vulnerable to being victimized by our destructive practices.
-Kate MacDowell
For more of her work, visit her portfolio here
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