LandE scape
Lucie Duban
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
is directly linked to my approach towards Nature.
I love it for making any life possible and I respect it as a kind of deity. I have a deep love for it in the way that we, humans, are part of it, we are not above it. That ' s how I feel towards Nature and this magical planet we live on. And it ' s also merely the way many ancient tribes and groups of people who had less interactions with modern societies still feel and behave nowadays. They haven ' t lost the fundamental knowledge that without Nature, we are dead. We did loose that knowledge. And it ' s a shame, because it ' s both the reason and the consequence of that distance initiated since the last century from our spontaneous and natural state as human beings. It works as a viscious circle: the less we ' re surrounded by Nature, the more we tend to believe ourselves to stand above it. What I say is just common sense, that we can live without for example, smartphones or tv, but we cannot live more than a few days without water nor food. That is the human reality.
We forgot, in our modern world, all the connections in between each living being( because, again, of this materialistic reading grid which tells us to believe that what we don ' t see does not exist). Those connections are what make Life possible on the planet. We are trained by the materialistic dogma to think that all the information contained in the void does not exist, since it ' s invisible, and this leads us to simply forget the interconnexions in between each living thing. As a consequence we behave in an
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