I have found Folly - a Lancaster based Digital Art company- and Greenmuseum - an Environmental Arts based website - particularly useful for this project. I have used Folly to research current new media projects in the area and also to develop a greater understanding of what it is to exhibit. What has been of importance to me is understanding some of the terms I have found myself using during this work and how my work really does relate back to it. I suppose much of what interested me initially was the sublime beauty of water as a universal symbol. However, I have taken a step away from environmental art, or at least ecological art, in the processes that followed. I am very excited by both environmental art and the digital age, and have followed on from my previous work in both print and painting in combining both disciplines.
I feel, however, that this project has shown me the importance of the natural world to us as human beings but particularly as artists. My video therefore is on some levels a statement about the importance of nature, but more so a statement about our interpretation of it. The science that we use to break down the natural world will help improve our understanding and respect for it, but our manipulation of the same world will induce greater thought.
www.folly.co.uk
www.greenmuseum.org
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