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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