“Hunger forces us to preserve a minimum of nature.
The need to ‘be’ fully presupposes a maximum of nature.”
Robert Hainard,
Expansion et Nature, 1972
Art for beauty, science for knowledge, philosophy for understanding, and words for sharing. This is my intersection. Starting from the field, from observation, to bring together the many facets of reality, to understand and to make others understand. Not to renounce either humanity or nature, but to strive for the best of both: a happy humanity within a vast wilderness. A vast undertaking for the small individual that I am, but the only one that suits me.
Thus, my work blends the contemplation of animals, the painting of light, the scientific method, and a philosophical approach imbued with the thought of Hainard. The necessity of understanding what is universal in what binds me and so many others to nature.
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5% – Saving the Northern Lapwing
Five percent, that’s all that remains after thirty years of brutal decline. Five percent of the Northern Lapwings we once had in Norway. A dramatic decline caused by changes in agricultural practices such as increased mowing, spreading of manure, drainage, intensification, and mechanization, but also habitat destruction and urbanization. And the 100,000 lapwings hunted each
From this side of negligence
This observation will stay between me and her. Her the White-backed Woodpecker in front me or her the forest I kneeled in to draw? Both. Both rare, both disappearing, threatened, and hidden from the world. Their inaccessibility and their remoteness have so far saved them, along with our ignorance. A state of things ever more
Smelling the South
“Watch out! don’t step on it!” Yes, it is indeed one of these places where you have to make sure not to step on a puppy Fur seal. A place, where you have to make sure its mum doesn’t come and bite your fingers off. Where you have to watch your back for the males
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