Decorating Nature, by Norm Magnusson

« Take a natural object, paint it, place it back into its natural habitat, photograph it. » This is how Norm Magnusson would explain what is his artistic project.

Here is what he says about his work :

I strive to create art that is both beautiful and meaningful, art that is aesthetically and intellectually accessible and deals with important themes. This current body of work is on a theme that has informed a great deal of my work over the past couple of decades — mankind’s complicated and vast relationship with nature.

We use nature how we see fit: we strive to bring order to it, we seek to explain it in a language that doesn’t belong to it, we try to make it prettier, we try to make it better, we try to make it more profitable. Some efforts succeed, some don’t.

La nature m’a toujours un peu effrayé. Du coup, le travail de Norm Magnusson qui apporte un peu d’humanité à la nature me fait sourire, et me la rend plus accessible. J’imagine des forêts où on pourrait tomber nez à nez avec des feuilles de Norm, ça serait tellement étrange.

[Decorating Nature via Design You Trust]

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