Spoiled by enayla
About the piece from
the artist:
"At times, Nature is the master of Humanity... and at other times, Humanity certainly rules Nature.
Nature makes us hurry inside when she weeps rain upon the world. With
hurricanes, she toys with us. Tornadoes are used to punish, earthquakes
to throw us about like pebbles in a child's game. We live on her land,
and through that, she rules over us. Our very bodies belong to her -
they age in rhythm with her, and they are subject to urges and desires
that she imposes on us. In some ways, we're little but slaves to
Nature's ways.
But Humanity... on the other hand... has found another way to dominate.
Humanity destroys what we touch. We reach out towards pretty things in
greed, and leave a trail of death behind. We fence the woods in, we run
over the animals and poison the seas. Ours is a different kind of
mastery but it is one nevertheless. Nature serves us because she has no
other choice. Humanity always expects Nature to mend what damage we've
done: heal the woods burned down, return the animals hunted to
extinction and cleanse the seas... never considering what will happen
the day Nature is no longer there to catch us.
In this piece, I tried to show this relationship. Humanity a naïve yet
destructive burden, the smile on her lips slight and dreamy as she
thinks of the beautiful flowers she will pluck and the lovely birds she
will see while all around her these very things now fade away. She's
blind to the destruction she causes. She knows that Nature will be there
for her, she knows that there will always be the scent of flowers and
always the gentle surge of the sea. She is Nature's master in that
Nature has no choice but to try to catch her and always try to mend the
damage she has done... but she is Nature's slave because she must
breathe the air, drink the water and eat the food that only Nature can
give her."
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