Video: Human Made Wild. Man and nature in sculptures by Jason Walker
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is not the first time that artists and sculptors have raised an ecological theme in their works, but in such an interpretation - for the first time. Sculptor by name Jason Walker presented at the exhibition at the Ferrin Gallery a series of his sculptures Human made wild, where he showed with paints on ceramics what "friendship" between man and nature looks like. The way he sees her. Walker's scary and strange works are painted from head to toe, and with such complex collages that you will definitely discover something new from whatever side you look at. Either poachers with guns and traps, or waste heaps and smoking chimneys of factories, or deforested forests and drained river beds - all those actions that are aimed at the good of mankind, but to the detriment of wildlife.
Animals have no choice but to adapt to the conditions in which they have to live. The sculptor has very picturesquely depicted what it looks like. So, in order to fit into these very conditions, animals should become part of developing technologies. At a minimum, learn to live under stress, polluted water, dirty air and withered plants, and ideally grow pipes instead of ears, wheels instead of legs, and become real "human friends".
Not everyone will understand Jason Walker's deep educational philosophy, created specifically for the topic of the day. But if it is interesting to take a look at the complete collection of outlandish sculptures - all of them are on the Ferrin Gallery website.
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