Statement of Purpose (ART315)

This electronic archive will contain images from various artists living in Newark, DE. Upon each post I will critique each image with hopes that the reader, the artist, and myself will gain insight on the current art scene among artists here in the town of Newark. Much of the topic of modern debate is that of "post-humanism" the removal of the human factor in society is a result of the categorization and generalization of peoples and cultures. These works below I feel illustrates that point or at least creates a commentary about post-humanism. A description of the principles of the relationships of the human/animal factor and that of the industrious "new morality" that man has imposed upon nature are represented in these works.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Digitalscape - Tree people


This work was a pigment print done by Emily Rosario and highlights our consciousness and nature. There are many parallels that represent the likeness of "human" society and "natural" society. Each system working within nature is what creates likeness in human beings physical body and a similar process has been adapted into the creation of society. The human/tree figures in Rosario's print represent a new conjunction of nature and man, "man" being a term deemed by society. When observing trees in nature their general stature is representational of humans. They stand upright and derive their energy from forces of the earth and beyond much as we do. The fact that these tree/humans are dominating the landscape represent the fact that nature is controlled. Certainly in the United States no nature has been left untamed because of the strict federal laws and controls that are present. The wilderness, ocean, stream, virtually any large scale "natural" operation is continuously affected by humans.

It is no doubt that one could feel a sense of connection through nature but in more literal terms our connection has become utterly dependent on nature. Occurrences of the Earth happen within a sphere encompassing all environmental phenomena are orchestrated by a force in which we can't communicate. Through alterProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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ions of genetics within plants it changes the original plan set in place that exists within the plants genes. Thus humans are now what represents what nature "is". This is so because we have deemed it so due to our individualistic consciousness.
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