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Scrambles Amongst The Alps
Nov 29, 2008
Published on SQUID
I’m convinced that you cannot describe nature, not philosophically, nor in a scientific manner and, not in the last place, not from an aesthetic point of view either. The moment you start describing it, studying or painting it, nature is undone and becomes something different altogether: a dissertation, a story, or an art work, anything that fits into a human framework of understanding.
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Nov 29, 2008
Published on SQUID
I’m convinced that you cannot describe nature, not philosophically, nor in a scientific manner and, not in the last place, not from an aesthetic point of view either. The moment you start describing it, studying or painting it, nature is undone and becomes something different altogether: a dissertation, a story, or an art work, anything that fits into a human framework of understanding.
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Diorama
Apr 3, 2009
Published on personal blog
I have been doing some research on diorama's for an upcoming project. For a number of reasons I find them fantastically fascinating. In the first place, the fact that they represent nature in the same way as our perception of nature: as a construction. But more than that, they reveal how that construction is preconditioned by culture, science and art.
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Apr 3, 2009
Published on personal blog
I have been doing some research on diorama's for an upcoming project. For a number of reasons I find them fantastically fascinating. In the first place, the fact that they represent nature in the same way as our perception of nature: as a construction. But more than that, they reveal how that construction is preconditioned by culture, science and art.
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Made in Sweden
Year: 2009
Material: photograph
Size: 150 cm x 100 cm
Produced with support from The Prins Berhard Cultuurfonds
Material: photograph
Size: 150 cm x 100 cm
Produced with support from The Prins Berhard Cultuurfonds
concept
Nature is an idea that is produced and manufactured in a cultural context, rather than something that simply exists ‘out there’. With each and every attempt to define or describe it, nature is undone and becomes something different altogether: a dissertation, theory, story, or artwork. The project ‘Made in Sweden’ takes that notion to the extreme. It depicts a scenery that originates from Öckerö, an island outside Göteborg, which has been rebuild and photographed in a sculpture studio.
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