Return to nature
Swiss Alps, 2024 Swiss Alps, 2024
I want to suggest an exchange, I take a stone, I change the stone and a few years later I offer a stone.
Swiss Alps, 2024 Swiss Alps, 2024
Rotterdam, 2024Rotterdam, 2024
In the last chapter of my project, a new question arises. Why do I have the urge to take a stone home. To possess the most equal thing I can imagen – a free stone. This question of ownership makes me feel a bit unpleasant. Why does everything have to be owned in society? Then I came across Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s. In her book she talks about the honourable harvest, a practice that applies to every exchange between people and the earth. She talks about how humans should approach the environment as a partner in a relationship rather than an object of consumption. One of the points she makes is ‘reciprocate the gift. For me it feels right to give a stone back to nature symbolizing a reciprocal gesture to nature. The object that I borrowed from nature and cultivated goes back to the place it came from and blending the boundaries between the natural world and human creation.
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