This works is the title piece for the ReWilding exhibition at Whereyart.
Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at restoring natural processes, while increasing biodiversity. Unlike other forms of ecological restoration, rewilding seeks to reduce human influence on ecosystems, and places emphasis on recovering ecological interactions and functions. Rewilding supports new and emerging ecosystems, new species and new interactions. Rewilding, in some sense, seeks to eliminate the daily intervention of humans, replacing them with the organic, with natural processes. This body of work, similarly, seeks to restore natural cycles and erase the influence of un-natural systems upon humans, to better emphasize the recovery of natural functions and interactions. Rewilding, and the works presented here are a consideration in the first steps in our own internal ecological restoration– a restoration of the wilds of the human condition and its natural processes, from growth, to rest, to decay. This work is a seeking of the reintegration of cycles that are often interrupted by our lack of connection with the natural world and our own natural processes.
This particular work features a figure immersed in "rewilding". The figure is poised in a upside down position which suggest that they are surrendering to the natural processes. I situate my figures in resting position and juxtapose this with energetic mark making to convey the processes that take place while resting.
