Parables of the Land
The concept behind this ongoing series comes from the incredible rock formations in the Southern Utah landscape - rocks that balance precariously on eroded bases, and huge cliff faces that look solid but are actually made of incredibly delicate layers, etc. What if these are not just forms but actually parables – short, moralistic, tales of the precariousness of life and the fragile balance that needs to be maintained? What if these parables were being told by the earth itself? (I suspect indigenous cultures would find this idea more than obvious.)
By creating these pieces I am attempting to reframe the earth’s stories in a way that is absurd - or frankly ridiculous - in hopes of calling attention to these tales in a language we might more easily recognize, or that resonates with our current conditions. We are, after all, to the point, as Greta Thunberg has said, where the response of global capitalist leaders in the face of imminent environmental collapse is “beyond absurd.”
The concept behind this ongoing series comes from the incredible rock formations in the Southern Utah landscape - rocks that balance precariously on eroded bases, and huge cliff faces that look solid but are actually made of incredibly delicate layers, etc. What if these are not just forms but actually parables – short, moralistic, tales of the precariousness of life and the fragile balance that needs to be maintained? What if these parables were being told by the earth itself? (I suspect indigenous cultures would find this idea more than obvious.)
By creating these pieces I am attempting to reframe the earth’s stories in a way that is absurd - or frankly ridiculous - in hopes of calling attention to these tales in a language we might more easily recognize, or that resonates with our current conditions. We are, after all, to the point, as Greta Thunberg has said, where the response of global capitalist leaders in the face of imminent environmental collapse is “beyond absurd.”
