Sentences with phrase «relationship to nature»

He studied 10,000 people over 20 years and compared them with those who more put value on intrinsic things — quality of relationships, relationship to nature — and he found the high consumer - minded people are less happy.

Trophy hunting and poaching symbolizes what's gone wrong with our relationship to nature.

«It's an experiment in simplicity of design, construction techniques and relationship to nature,» says its designer, Todd Saunders, the widely published young architect, born and trained in Canada and currently working in Norway.

Our relationship to nature of space is particularly fascinating for its abstraction.

Zoloto's works tie in those personal remembrances with a greater folk narrative that attempts to make sense of our relationship to nature and to ourselves.

«The expansionist, extractive mindset, which has so long governed our relationship to nature, is what the climate crisis calls into question so fundamentally.

It's the indirect nature of this relationship to nature that makes me wonder.

Jeremijenko — who's known for her work in combining technology with ecology for a «mutualistic systems design» approach, ultimately creating what she calls an «eco-mindshift» — is posing the question of how would our relationship to nature change if we apply to it the same rules that we live by?

In his introduction to the book's Appendix Hawken says: «It is axiomatic that we are at a threshold in human existence, a fundamental change in our relationship to nature and each other.

Her recent paintings and works on paper draw on her family's collection of auction catalogues, artist's postcards and a book of Victorian fairy paintings, which all feature historical landscape painting, enabling Acloque's investigation into our relationship to nature, the transfer of knowledge (public, private, between artists), and the consumption of art and objects.

«I'd always done stuff about nature,» he said, «and I wanted to smash up, mash up those two elements — the human and nature — and do something about our relationship to nature.»

Her view of the film is completely depersonalised, and as distanced as it is possible to get, given that pornography always implicates its consumers, in a way that the best landscape painting says something about our relationship to nature.

``... Both tender and ruthless, this intricate and sensitive work implies that our relationship to nature is both tenuously fragile and infinitely complex.»

For this presentation, Auad engages with the themes of architecture, the fragility of the human body, and man's relationship to nature - all of which are re-occurring subjects in his practice.

The selection of works feature both traditional and abstracted representations of landscape depicting various forms of the exterior world as well as our internal or psychological relationship to nature.

Since the 1960s, Downes says, North American art has addressed the physicality of nature in two ways: as traditional landscape painting (and by extension through abstraction) and as three - dimensional sculptures that have a mimetic relationship to nature.

Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature.

The human relationship to nature, fraught and imperiled, lies at the heart of Becker's practice, which the artist describes as seeking «to make the uncertainties of this relationship palpable.»

Director of Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, sculptor Maren Hassinger creates «installations, videos, performances and public artworks that deal with equality and our changing relationship to nature.»

But on closer inspection the viewer notices nail houses, images of which are now censored by the state after going viral, where pagodas, once used to «existentially meditate about our relationship to nature» would be.

Christina Cotter, «Katherine Taylor Ponders Man's Relationship to Nature in Gorgeous Landscapes at Marcia Wood Gallery,» ArtsCriticATL.com,

Included here will be works by Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Pier Paolo Calzolari, and others, all of whom explored postwar Italy's changing relationship to nature.

Since its invention in the nineteenth century, photography has been used to document plant life and humans» relationship to nature.

Mark Dion (born 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts; lives in New York) has been working since the 1980s on our relationship to nature in science and art.

Japanese painter Ikezoe's playful taxonomies of like objects — a microwave, a lightning bug, and a laptop, all emitting light; or an eyeball, a beach ball, and an apple, sharing a spherical shape — function as explorations of man's relationship to nature.

He sees their relationship to nature as essential to their survival; they are dependent on and inspired by the sanctuary that nature provides.

Again, Hoyland's European sensibility is on view; it was taken as an article of faith throughout the history of European painting that its relationship to nature should be kept foremost in the painter's mind.

However, unlike these artists, Eriksson does not refer to his relationship to nature as religious yet his work conveys the same calm, atmospheric and harmonic qualities.

Lauren Fensterstock creates elaborate sculptures and installations that explore the evolving history of our relationship to nature.

In the past two years we have been carefully researching Foulkes» complete oeuvre and are delighted to present an extremely specialized exhibition that studies Foulkes» landscape paintings and our multi-faceted and veiled relationship to nature.

Merz's «continuous» drawings explored the idea of organic creation, while his signature igloos examine man's relationship to nature.

Curator: Christine Heidemann, Berlin Mark Dion (b. 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, based in New York) has been working since the 1980s on our relationship to nature in science and art.

Surely art had long questioned the human relationship to nature and the ineffable.

The exhibit, which investigates experiments in utopian living through the colony, is abstractly based on Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, the community's under - recognized matriarch and her relationship to nature, spirituality and the failed vision she had for herself and her family.

The rusty remnants, scattered over more than 600 miles of desert, represent open questions about the nature of humanity and our relationship to nature.

The Warehouse Gallery April 17 — July 14, 2007 NETWORKED NATURE presents work that comments on our relationship to nature and natural environments in networked culture.

While stunning bits of nature are the active ingredient in both artists» work, it is our relationship to nature — the pleasure we take from it, our exploitation of it, the mysterious meaning we derive from beholding it — that is the key component uniting each disparate piece.

Their strong relationship to nature is evident through the use of a natural material like clay manipulated in order to become nature again, but in this case nature has become fetishised as in the lava trees» totemic presence.

These large artworks allow the viewer to question their own relationship to nature in private and contemplative way.

LYB: I realised that the works weren't the same, that is, they didn't have the same relationship to nature or operate in the same way; they were quite different in the media that they use, in both subject and form.

For more than four decades Maren Hassinger (b. 1947) has been recognized as a pioneering artist who mindfully explores our relationship to nature, movement, and transformation.

Interested in natural history and Modern art, Lauren Fensterstock explores the evolving history of our relationship to nature via elaborate, all - black sculptures and installations.

Hive Culture presents diverse works by 18 contemporary artists who are preoccupied with the pivotal role that bees play in pollination, environmental health and our changing relationship to nature.

Purple is an immersive six - channel video installation addressing man's relationship to nature and to the planet.

Landscape painting was about nature and our relationship to nature, but it was also about social and political harmony and order.

While pleasing in their elegant minimalism, they also bring to mind aspects of architecture and its relationship to nature.

Purple is an immersive six - channel video installation addressing man's relationship to nature and to the planet, created by the British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah.

Each work becomes a sanctuary to contemplate our relationship to nature and ourselves.

It's rather «an idiosyncratic proposal of completely reversing your relationship to nature — playing on this idea that nature is something that we control,» she says.

Led by Conservancy staff, this four - day backpacking program introduces students to backpacking, basic map reading, and navigation skills while nurturing students» relationship to nature and the national parks.