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If The Oceans Don't Make It, How Will We? |
Gallery II | Mar 31 - Apr 25, 2007 | ||||||
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"If The Oceans Don’t Make It, How Will We?" We shall not cease from our exploration. And the end of all our exploration will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ~T.S. Eliot Our world is a wonderful, mysterious place. The heavens and oceans are a part of our experience, but in ways removed from our daily consciousness. Mankind inhabits the continents, and has come to know and utilize them at its will accordingly. We are oblivious to the oceans without consideration to their overall importance, conceptualizing and quantifying our experiences in regards to nature, and seemingly without consideration. We no longer know the world intuitively. Mankind’s devised systems more often than not aggress against nature, deeming it insignificant. Euclid stood within the landscape bisecting it with his figure and devised geometry, a way that way we know our world. It is a beautiful example of mankind’s attempt to overlay logic as a means to an end. Our modern experience is a torrent of abstractions. Technology, the double edged sword, moves us forward at digital speed, but simultaneously removes us from our empirical world slowly, gradually, much like the epochal chapters of geology in deep time, and the constant ebb and flow of the tides on what has come to be known as the water planet. Within the overall scope, it may very well be a singular event within a singular moment. I am pleased to have the opportunity to present the Haiku Series. It has evolved into a personal meditation on the nexus of intellect, devised systems, and the unique circumstances we know as our physical world. As an Artist I have a respect for the power witnessed in nature, and it is my hope that we might see it all differently, therefore finding a new appreciation for the richness of our experience. James David Thomas Los Angeles, 2007 |
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