Title - Chemical Reaction?.

 "We only exist because of flowers"

Elsie Lauren.

A few images I am hoping to incorporate in the upcoming Gallery Event . The Photoshop images take into account the impact of pesticides and herbicides on ecosystems - the ensuing impact upon biodiversity. Here I explore the alienation of many species from their natural habitats, placing a solitary butterfly into an synthetic space .

 

Ongoing ideas for Biodiversity project

Preserve & cherish the pale blue dot the only home we've ever known

-Carl Sagan (1) 

Altered Perception. Mixed 
Mediums.  yf .2023

Exploring biodiversity - Earths ecosystems 🌎..... cultivating a deeper understanding towards 

the sacred balance of life on Earth and our human role.

Nature doesn't need people,people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being ....and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature. Harrison Ford.(#)

SKETCH BOOK Work 🐝...

Eckhart Tolle

Aims - continuing to re- work ideas that focus on pesticide toxins, their consequential effects upon biodiversity, wild flora and fauna...

Eckhart Tolle expresses succinctly the root causes of anthropic disconnect from the rest of nature in his writings...that merge well with 1940's conservationist Aldo Leopold, whose eco- philosophical approach describes natures intrinsic value as one to cultivate, to deepen our understanding of - toward seeing our human selves as being an intrinsic part of the whole....Leopold stated "Humanity is a member, not the master, of the land community." He himself was challenged to re -evaluate his own past ideological values... Encountering a shot wolf, Leopold saw the depth of wildness fading from her eyes as the wounded wolf lay dying. An experience that caused what seems, a profound shift in his understanding...writing his seminal book - "A Sand County Almanac,"  he considers the ethics of human impact on habitats as a form of violence, generated by values and beliefs that were driven by a conquest ethic. Para(6) ref

This again reminds me of Norwegian, Arne Naess - eco-philosopher, who consider s natures inherent state....that "Nature has intrinsic value in and of itself." (@). Naess view was one of optimism, even if there is an eventual collapse, a new civilization era will emerge - yet not until deep into the 21st C,  holding very different evolving values. Naess hope would be that it would align more deeply, ecologically...yet many great challenges will occur for the present generations. Ref (5) 

Tolle's perceptions in some way echoing the same incremental sentiments as Leopold and Naess...yet from an spiritual perspective. In Tolle 's own writings his assessment of human nature is perceptive. Aligning from a buddhist approach to the human condition, he explores...the root of suffering as found in wanting and cravings......which in turn has formed the basis of a dehumanized industrial civilization....threatening not only itself  but all life forms on the planet. (Paraphrased) (4) see ref.

In the Ist sketch is a written prose from Tolle's book, based on the sacred mystery of life...of which are sketched depictions from 17th C, the industrial scientific domain of the conceptual mind..it's emergence toward the conquest to subdue nature... resulting in the unsustainable predicaments we face today our perceiving of nature to be for human use alone. 

STILLNESS SPEAKS.

"When you perceive nature only through the mind, through thinking you cannot sense it's aliveness, it's 'beingness'. You see the form only and are unaware of the life within the form - the sacred mystery.

Thought reduces nature to a commodity to be used in pursuit of profit or some other utilitarian purpose. The ancient forests become timber, the bird a research project, the mountain something to be conquered.....(2).Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle.

Sketching  ideas  below - visual mind maps which focus on researching  facts concerning human environmental impacts. - in particular industrial pesticides on ecosystems - leading to detrimental effects on biodiversity....here I am exploring the ethics of  what Leopold describes as the land  community being commodified. One could say the lands eventual diversity reduced to mono culture- which is unsustainable.

below further research information in my ongoing  sketch books

Systems become fragile

Reasons behind loss
of pollinators effects of 
 pesticide info facts

On the RedList Swallowtail
Butterfly declines info.

And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet. And  the winds long to play with your hair" Kalil Gibran(3)...

Refs (1) (3) (#) www.trvst.world/change-makers/

Ref (2) Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle. (p 81)

Ref (4) The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle ,( p 63)

Ref (5) Deep ecology, Arne Naess essay (p

Ref (6) Aldo Leopold . The Top 50 Sustainability Books , University of Cambridge UK. (p10+11)

(@) Arne Naese Deep Ecology . Essays