I went on a trip. There was nothing except for nature to take a picture of. So I looked for distinguishing features, irregularities and Imperfections. I looked for unity between the human body and the nature.
While I was studying nature, it had a great impact on my mind and I tried to capture the similarities, or rather the distinguished differences.
I found the deep connection of a human body with nature, hence this project struck my mind and I decided to do it.
Nature is a strange paradox where the simultaneous absence and abundance of perfection generates beautiful forms. Beauty is marred by perfection; beauty is glorified and enhanced by the “contorted,” by the “weird”. Anything belonging to nature belongs to this paradox. Which is to say, anything of nature is perfect and without perfection, “beautiful.”
Of the many, many things that can and have been said about this troubled relationship between humanity and nature, many of us will relate to a certain disconnection from the environment. This series works to repair this severage with great effect. By calling us to identify with bodies, we at the same time identify with nature. We come to sympathize with the mood and emotion of roots and plants. Nature becomes vulnerable, emotionally relatable in a way that makes it knowable on a plane of equality. Nature then reflects back on the body, and there is no longer such thing as a flawed, imperfect body.
In short, alienation from ‘our natural environment’ promotes and normalizes violence against the earth and any property of it (including human bodies). To counter this process, hooks argues for the deep unity between humanity and nature. Unity leads us away from ‘estrangement,’ toward peace and love.
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