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The relationship between humans and non-humans propose new possibilities for imagining the âhumanâ and the environment as they have a combined and intertwined elements. This relationship is a combination that influences each other evident in urban living, growth of the environment and growth of a city. These elements have a relationship of growth which is enhanced by the relationship between humans and non-humans. Humans influence on the environment and ecology is a natural path however, they do put forward destruction. As well as the environment which does cause destruction upon the human and the Non- Human life.
The Quote from Sir Ken Robinson, âYou cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.â Develop my concept further as it expressed how the human development is a source of evolution based on the conditions of the relationship between the human and non-human environment because when we work as one we will grow and flourish.
These comparisons can be demonstrated in the artwork to show that in the world we are all combined and proceed to influence each other to create a coherent system. The artwork represents the relationship between the humans and non-humans, the environment and ecology. Todays âHumanâ and the environment, is a combination that influences each other. Through the medium of Illustrator and laser cutting, I have created this sculptural artwork. The sculptural artwork depicts the growth of a flower with a city emerging out of it, this demonstrates growth of the âhuman environmentâ which includes the natural world and the technological world of the city.
The process of the sculptural artwork, was by taking the image from the first assignment and reiterating and developing that concept further. Through this I took the main image of the central flower and manipulated it to further this concept. The sculptural artwork demonstrates growth, as the flower represents the environment and the city represents the human technological environment. I took this image onto illustrator and developed three types of flowers at developing stages of growth. The Flowers stages depict the opening of the flower and revealing a set of city skyscrapers in the centre. This depiction is as if a human city life is growing as well as the environment are simultaneously growing, evolving and sprouting. After developing these images, I thought of different ways of presenting these images. Through the experimentation process, I explored the ways of illustrator, painting and thought of animation, however these werenât going to express the concept strongly. The painting was done on balsa wood with a stencil of each flower, this created a series that depicted the growth and sprouting of the flower and city. However, this experiment had its complications as the scale of each flower was wrong and the cleanliness of each flower with the paint, as well as to be able to paint in the city in such a small scale didnât materially work well with the painting experiment.
I then explored the use of a laser cutter. I went back to illustrator and made the laser cutting lines and etching. This use of the laser cutter into plywood. Enhances my concept through material practice. As the use of a machine to cut through plywood to demonstrate the environments human and non-human possibilities, creates a paradox between the material practice and the conceptual practice which emphasizes the relationship between humans and non-humans. I furthered this combination of materials and concepts through the presentation of my Sculptural artwork. I experimented the presentation of the flowers by depicting them growing out of the grass, growing out of a flower pot and keeping them singular or combined. I have presented my laser cut plywood flowers in a flower pot, which symbolically demonstrates the flowers origin of growth from the soil and the ground, as well as the cities development from the ground up. As well as presenting with a collection of singular and combined images of my sculpture, to see them individually and as a series, which reiterates the process of growth. This combination is also show in the uploading and photographing of the sculpture, I have photographed it in sunlight and then edited on my computer. This continues and reiterates this dichotomy of the human and non-human environment coexisting.
Sir Ken Robinson, The Element: How finding your passion changes everything, Published 2009, Penguin Books
