HELIOTROPE
2018 - 2019
There are reminders of the way that nature has endured and outlived and with dignity reclaimed so many schemes and disruptions of man.
Nature is silently near, mountains still, all within a reach — they are, yet say nothing. But while the nature stays on its own path, humans are more and more intruding — the results can be seen in subtle or material interventions or just by feeling slightly overlapping existences, while one grabs and the other one cracks. We could limit ourselves voluntarily, choose to remain God’s creatures instead of making ourselves gods. One form of sickness lead, all the rest follow.
Heliotrope is therefore dealing with the most basic relationship: a bond between human and nature. Alas, an idea, a relationship can go extinct, just like an animal or a plant. What solace then?
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The sound of the chain saw doesn't blot out all the noise off the forest or drive the animals away, but it does drive-away the feeling that you are in another, separate, timeless, wild sphere.
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We have not ended rainfall or sunlight; in fact, rainfall and sunlight may become more important forces in our lives.
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But the meaning of the wind, he sun; the rain-of nature- has already changed. Yes, the wind still blows, but no longer from some other sphere, some inhuman place.
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We never thought that we had wrecked nature. Deep down, we never really thought we could: it was too big and too old; its forces - the wind, the rain, the sun - were too big, too elemental.
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It is harder on those days to get caught up in the timeless meaning of the forest, for man is nearby.
- Bill McKibben
