“A scull (group) of Harps seals swimming on their backs is a common sight where I live, but revealing their patterns and movement from an aerial perspective provides an entirely new level of intrigue and appreciation.” Eldred Allen
Tag: art
To me community is our human re-enactment of the forest. Together we intertwine and grow, creating our own micro-climates and connections that can nurture and support each-other as well as create space for a rich ecosystem of others to find their place within.
“My eyes are fixed to the distant point where the mire and the forest meet, I can see the blue silhouette of Oratunturi Fell arching behind them. Crooked birches stand on peat islets running through the mire, I feel the rich smell of the mire in my nose. The sky is wide, and the earth. And the mind.”- Kaija Kiuru
Storytelling from the perspective of ice, or a stone, a tree, a branch, a ray of light, for me is such an intense way to build a relationship with the Earth. And language becoming a thing that doesn’t separate us from the natural world, but a way of entangling us in its system of exchanges.
“Caribou ribs separating from the cage is the same sound as tundra cranberries separating from the vine. When you are open to the land, it speaks to you.” says Inuvialuk artist Maureen Gruben, from her hometown of Tuktoyatuk in the Western Arctic.
The emotion driving my work has changed several times throughout my practice, initially, it used to be healing, and even at some point reconciliation. Now I think it’s more a desire to share, to spark curiosity, and start a conversation about the natural world.
STATE Studio collaborated with One Resilient Earth around the thought-provoking work of Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, ‘Designing for the sixth extinction’, as part of Hypertopia, an exhibition and decentralized program held in Berlin, from October to December 2020.
Our pick of the most hopeful, inspiring and engaging documentaries about the central role of food, Indigenous foodways, regenerative agriculture, and… mushrooms in addressing the climate emergency and so many other global crises. Enjoy!
What I see in the community of generative artists – that I am part of – is a great direction of what I wish the general art world would be like. In my experience, artists in this field tend to be very open-minded, helpful and gladly share their experiments and tricks…
A big part of our struggle seems to be aligned with intentional amnesia, or a community or society choosing not to acknowledge or see even the tribal communities as existing…
Resilience Frontiers, a collective intelligence process catalyzed by the United Nations Climate Change secretariat, laid the foundation for One Resilient Earth, by experimenting with futures thinking, mindfulness and art to envision a climate-resilient future. One Resilient Earth is now a partner to Resilience Frontiers.
Following Satish Kumar, personal transformation comes from the heart and not the mind. How could anyone shift from a consumerist mindset to a conservation mindset without falling in love with nature and recognizing oneself in nature? In other words, having a deep transformative experience is necessary for our hearts to open up…
I intend to rescue ancestral rituals related to sacred places, ancestral geography and original memory, and take them into my own exploration where the work is presented as a syncretic bricolage, as an attempt to reconcile different doctrines, a process of trans-culturalization and miscegenation, the union of the sacred and the secular…
I believe that education and a return to a nature-centric narrative will naturally cause the tide to shift for more altruism, thoughtful living, and preservation. I see cities and small community villages that function like biological organisms because it makes sense to build them that way…
How do you connect with the Earth today?
I connect to the Earth in so many ways, living on her and depending on her… the biggest connection comes in moments of ceremony and prayer. I have always lived in natural places far from cities, so daily I connect to the earth by walking in the forest …
In 1000 years, I imagine that individual countries are no longer governed or dominated but there is one “administration” for the whole globe. It is not politicians who govern, but artificial intelligence. Human vanity and power obsession are thus eliminated…