Adaptive Cycles
Oh, Anela
2019
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Background: Nature is
one of our greatest teachers: in creation, destruction, renewal, and balance. Humanity
has found ways to disrupt nature and impose ourselves on the landscapes that shape our
experience of life. As humans trying to understand our relationship with nature, we have
created harm and destruction to the land directly. This destructive tendency carries
over to how we experience... read morenatural settings. Out of these interactions, nature in America
has become deeply tied to national identity and an individual sense of belonging; and
the “other” that is people of color is alienated. Spaces that should be
healing, a reminder that we are part of something greater, are instead unsettling and
even dangerous to many who are “other” in American
society.
Keywords: environment, installation, people of color, fibers, ceramics, papermaking, color, social constructs, nature, ocean, immigration, healing, growth, interdisciplinary art, chromophobia, chromophilia, sculpture, ecology.read less - ID:
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