Omphalos-The Navel of the World
In investigating the emotional bond and distance between human and what we commonly call nature, this project doesn't shy away from the relational friction, grief, fear, loneliness and subconscious forces that also are a part of climate change. My own relationship with nature is inspiering, posing the stranges riddles of existance and beauty. Yet the relationship is also deeply disturbed by my inhereted europatriarchal thought system that enables capitalistic narcissism, legitimizes habitual extractivism and continues the disenchantment of nature. My humancenteredness manifests materially but also aesthetically. Of course nothing is one-dimentional; my cultures female legacy offers a profound respect and appreciation for the living world and the sacredness of all land, and my spiritual practices have amazing tools for humility and one-ness. But far from just depicting a paradisical trancendance and harmonious interbeing, I try to aknowledge the fact that interconnection is often experenced the strongest in moments of great distress and physical pain. It's not a glorification of destruciton but a spiritual and relational path of a wounded human on a wounded earth.
In this project I search for a visual and spacial language that places us face to face with the relational questions between us and the beyond human world.