An art practice as ecotone: interconnected and embodied art practice, for human connections to the more-than-human world.

Abstract

Navigating between discipline and medium, this essay draws the landscape where my art practice takes place. In the studio, in the forest or in the gallery, my work as an artist means to reconnect humans to our more-than-human world. Feeding my intuition in biology, philosophy, indigenous knowledge, and art, I wrote this essay with the guidance of artists and thinkers such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Astrida Neimanis, Emilija Škarnulytė, Mark Dion, Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir, or David Abram, in an attempt to gain a different perspective, away from the prevalent Western world views. The experimental approach to the making of artworks, is a method that helps embody the philosophy and science of entanglement that Merlin Sheldrake, Peter Wohlleben or Suzanne Simard write about in relation to the living world.This essay reflects on ideas about the current climate crisis, the loss, grief and responsibility of humans towards the living world, and explores the narrative of reconnection and healing of the severed links between the Western world and the living world, through an art practice.