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Turning Back The Clock – Harri Kallio and the Dodo
I have often wondered what the now extinct dodo bird looked like when it was still around and roaming in the wild. Harri Kallio has tried to give us an insight into this lost-forever part of our world...
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Sex, Celebrity and Conservation – The Art of Peter Beard
Peter Beard is probably one of the earliest modern artists to turn his hand to the issues of Man’s ever-increasing impact on the planet and the resulting death and destruction. Using a photographic...
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What does bullfighting have to do with the environment?
Recently I came across this story which was stimulated by an outdoor performance art event as activism. One hundred and twenty five people stripped to their underpants, painted their bodies and created...
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Robin Schwartz – Amelia and her Animals
Robin Schwartz is a friend. But that’s not why her work is on this blog. It is here because, for many months, I have been looking for work that describes a positive relationship between us and the...
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Naked With Pigs – Miru Kim
“These industrial environments are so desensitizing in that you, even if you are an animal lover, become complacently accepting of the fact that the live beings are only raw materials for mass...
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Animal Mysticism – Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow
The images in Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow remind us that animals have always had a mystical place in the world of humans. Started in 1992, Ashes and Snow is a long term project in which...
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Wildlife Made Homeless – Born Free’s Ad Campaign
For many people it is difficult to understand, let alone empathize with, technical statements like “loss of habitat”. This advertizing campaign from the charity Born Free aims to bring this issue into...
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There are chimeras – no more either/or. The work of Ellen Rogers
The work of Ellen Rogers brings focus to the question of whether the human is part of, or separate from, “Nature”. The giraffe sculpture above has the body of a giraffe, human front legs a mechanical...
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Real and Surreal – The Landscapes of Joan Miro
I remember when, a few years ago, I visited the Joan Miro museum in Barcelona. There were two large, wall-sized paintings that each consisted just of one single curved line painted in black on white...
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Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin
Magical realism is brought to the cinema in this recently released, haunting and captivating movie that I watched earlier today. Much of the impact of the film is purely sensory. Cinematography that...
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