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INSPIRATION

NATURE AS A FIELD OF OBSERVATION

Nature is not a backdrop to my work, but a field of observation and research.

 

Seeds, soil, humus, rocks, water, insects, gastropods and other forms of life become points of departure for a practice that moves between painting, photography, installation and land art.

I am interested in the relationships between living beings, matter and transformation: in what happens when we slow down enough to observe a seed, a stone, a trace, a fragment of soil or the movement of water. These encounters often become images, materials, installations or site-specific works.

My photographic practice works as a visual notebook, while painting and installation allow these observations to be translated into different forms. Land art extends this research into the landscape itself, where natural processes and human intervention can meet.

Rather than representing nature, I look for ways of entering into a relationship with it — recognising the intelligence, fragility and agency of the more-than-human world.

My eye wanders beyond the valley to the pine woods that border the opposite slope, and in their appearance I find something that appeals to my nature. It may be that in my state of mind I was asking Nature itself to give me a sign. This is what I got from my afternoon walk: a nod of recognition from the woods, a kind of greeting.

 Diary, January 7th 1857 - H. D. Thoreau

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