loss of my natural world
Elder Artist Statement
I have lived long enough to witness a tragic monument
in human history. My old ways of viewing the world
are obsolete and unworkable. Enormous events
caused by human beings are happening quickly. Great
acts of cruelty are perpetrated against the natural world
everyday. Most money spent of spoils, pollutes and
degrades the environment bringing about major
disorder and suffering. Animals are burned, or starved
to death, trees are dying, species are becoming extinct,
air more toxic, rain more acidic, oceans more polluted,
and the planets equilibrium more disrupted.
loss of my natural world
The worlds population tripled last century and is
expected to more than triple in this one. With this
expansion comes the endless belief in material
advancement. Nature as a force independent of
man no longer exists. I now live in a post natural
world of irrevocable changes I can not wish away.
Taken from me is my comforting sense of the
natural worlds predictability, in slow geological
time, its wildness, its irreplaceable intricacy and
grandeur,
loss of my natural world