This past year of learning and teaching at Wave Hill has not only deepened my understanding of nature and strengthened my relationship to this very special place, it has afforded me innumerable opportunities to explore
human connections to the natural world.
Not exact matches
Thank you for your partnership and support in these efforts
to engage our diverse community in understanding our role as
human beings within the
natural world and creating a sense of
connection among all living creatures.
Finally, by including relatively small
human figures in their works or not including
humans at all, they were demonstrating ideas about humanity's
connection to the larger
natural world and reminding us that the
natural world exists outside of
human endeavors.
Music, films, and ideas festivals designed
to build understanding and appreciation of the
connections between
human culture and the
natural world;
It may not offer any answers
to how
humans can reform our relationship with rainforests, oceans and polar bears, but it does offer a moment's reflection on how art can reawaken our sense of
connection with the
natural world.
This transcendence can be as open
to interpretation as the evaporation of sea water, the struggle
to personify the
natural world in
human form in order
to make an emotive
connection, or ultimately, the idea of interpreting a belief system as architecture, both of the
natural and man - made
world, in order
to transport oneself from a secular state
to a sacred experience.
Dana Lynn Louis, Portland, Oregon Louis is inspired by the
human body and its
connection to timeless and fascinating systems of the
natural and constructed
worlds — linking time, space, and energy through dynamic multimedia installations.