How can you redefine nature?
A few years ago, geologists announced the new era of the Anthropocene, literally "man's era" in which humanity intervenes as a force of nature on earth.
Worldwide there are more trees in man made-or influenced surroundings and structures, than there are trees in the jungle. Man is able to stoke the biomass production of five hundred million years in five hundred years and change the climate of the released gases.
The rise of man is accompanied by an avalanche of endangered species. The term "Anthropocene" is a great new, hypothetical word that makes these phenomena together suddenly takes and understandable. But also sounds a warning by: that we are strong enough to manipulate the earth is not something to be proud of. From environmental problems, to the extinction of species and climate change. We people thought we were standing outside of nature and the nature outside of us. What we called until now 'natural' is also artificial, and what we called 'artificial' is also natural. For designers and artists, this is a particularly challenging situation.
The rise of man is accompanied by an avalanche of endangered species. The term "Anthropocene" is a great new, hypothetical word that makes these phenomena together suddenly takes and understandable. But also sounds a warning by: that we are strong enough to manipulate the earth is not something to be proud of. From environmental problems, to the extinction of species and climate change. We people thought we were standing outside of nature and the nature outside of us. What we called until now 'natural' is also artificial, and what we called 'artificial' is also natural. For designers and artists, this is a particularly challenging situation.
"The urge of man to want to influence anywhere, we have begun nature to structure around us. Should the nature restore itself? It at that man needs? What does the part of growth, improvement or progress mean then?"
The malleability of nature should be 'impulsed'. This subject is something I spend quite some time thinking through and I managed to turn into good research, starting with some questions that function as guidelines and thus give shape to my research. The study investigates how humans produce waste, and this in itself can take natural structures and organic forms. This way seems useless waste in large numbers, but again can be used as raw material for other things.
If we look at the technical aspects of the word 'structure' you could say that every new technological advance is based on a natural phenomenon. The laws of physics are inevitable when it comes to innovation. The way we take structural forms from nature is so intertwined with our daily life that we hardly even notice it anymore.
It is all around us. On that basis, I have been able to formulate a number of sub-questions, namely: Is structure to human behaviour natural? Do we take natural structure also to have structure so ourselves? Is this waste not a form of nature because we humans, are a part of nature? Therefore, is that why we use their structure to make progress? My interest in 'structure' goes very far, in all senses of the word. To distance ourselves as human beings of our nature, we force ourselves to put it all to identify and provide structure. But in fact this is precisely why we are so alike other animals.
If we look at the technical aspects of the word 'structure' you could say that every new technological advance is based on a natural phenomenon. The laws of physics are inevitable when it comes to innovation. The way we take structural forms from nature is so intertwined with our daily life that we hardly even notice it anymore.
It is all around us. On that basis, I have been able to formulate a number of sub-questions, namely: Is structure to human behaviour natural? Do we take natural structure also to have structure so ourselves? Is this waste not a form of nature because we humans, are a part of nature? Therefore, is that why we use their structure to make progress? My interest in 'structure' goes very far, in all senses of the word. To distance ourselves as human beings of our nature, we force ourselves to put it all to identify and provide structure. But in fact this is precisely why we are so alike other animals.
"The fact that man once refused to be categorised as animal, does not prevent them constantly wanting to copy the animal"
With this information it became clear to me that I wanted to make an object with waste that was washed up on shore, to make a statement about reusing our waste.
To prove that raw material influenced by natural elements still can be used, I decided to make a seating object. Old fishing ropes were dried, sorted and woven onto a grid. The next step was to put this woven 'mat' into a mould where it was impregnated with resin, and eventually became a shell.
