STUDIO VI - Trips & Ideas
We went to a trip to KareKare (next to Piha), searching for a more developed and solid idea.
We then discussed our individual thoughts, ideas and reflection about this trip.
Krisma thought about making something surreal like; what if the waterfalls is upside down, or the beach is upside down? She thought about this because she thought that every single element goes together, like a beach wouldn't be a beach if it didn't have water or sand, I'm not sure where she was going with it, but at least she had an idea.
On the other hand, I told them that when we were at KareKare beach, I thought about nature somehow having a natural connection to humans, like how branches looked like human veins. We then discussed more about this topic and how we actually connect to nature, like when we are surrounded by natural nature, we are more calm and more open - minded (and also it makes us have deeper thoughts, which is also why we went for a trip),compare to when we are in a city, we feel like there a lot of things in our minds, we are more stressed, etc. So, we all agreed to get back on this topic, but now we actually have some personal connection to the topic, which makes this concept much more stable.
I went back home, and did some research to make this concept much stronger, I then came across to an online article about human connection.
https://www.socialistalternative.org/global-warning/humans-nature/
The natural world combines elements of both competition and co-operation: one could not exist without the other. - Karl Marx
Many of the people who claim that nature is competitive and aggressive use that to argue for right-wing political ideas. If humans, like all other animals, are naturally aggressive, then the way society is now is natural
humanity is part and parcel of the natural world.
“… we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature – but … we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst … all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly. And, in fact, with every day that passes we are acquiring a better understanding of these laws and getting to perceive both the more immediate and the more remote consequences of our interference with the traditional course of nature.”(Frederick Engels – from The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man)
What I understood from this?:
From great socialist thinkers from the 19th century like Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, have argued that everything goes together and is part of nature, including humans …”one could not exist without the other”..., this means that everything is a part or a piece of one whole thing and everything is a balance, this is similar with the concept of “Circle of Life” from Lion King,
...” Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.” ...
http://lionking.wikia.com/wiki/Circle_of_Life_(concept)
When, I think about this, and like the article said, it makes some kind of harmonious system, Other useful words to build this concept are: