#eye lightning

Art is an important medium where people can express themselves and their interpretative of nature in unique and creative ways. For this reason, art can be used as a tool to help us better understand our environment and about how one may feel about it. Nature through the arts can be represented as a picture of the earth’s landscape, music about the wilderness, photography of different species etc. No mater the medium used, our idea of interpretation is going to be different from other peoples because of our own sense of place and how we grew up.

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Personally, when I think of art in nature, I think of the naturally occurring art we see in the wild. I think of the beautiful sunset or a twisted tree that struggled to find sunlight art, I think as humans we relate to the trees struggle and find beauty in that. When I see something in nature that represents me I feel a connection and overwhelming sense of joy. I appreciate the “gift of beauty” (Beck et al. 2018) that nature gives us. I understand that the experience of actually being in nature is more meaningful than something that could be captured in a picture. This allows me to develop a unique vision of what nature is to myself. I think all mediums can help contribute to the gift of beauty, but actually seeing nature in it’s raw form is even more powerful.

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Art speaks to us when there is a familiarity associated allowing you to feel a sense of connection to the piece, which means art, will be subjective. I think nature is a very good example of this to me when I see the bark on trees it looks like the deep lines that run through my hands, lightning appears to look like the veins that run though my eyelids, the dry cracking ground represents my dry skin in the crisp winter months. Nature often personifies humans, which allows us to relate to it, deepening our connection and understanding for its beauty. Art doesn’t need to be this extravagant million-dollar painting; it can be a simple cloud in the sky that reminds you of something from you childhood.

Retrieved from: https://www.ignant.com/2017/09/12/human-vs-nature-by-agnieszka-lepka/

People look for connections through art all the time and nature is no different, we are all on the same earth and have the same goal, survival. We are more connected to nature than anyone realizes, when it is dark, gloomy and rainy we often feel a sense of melancholy, but when the sun is radiating beams of light down at us we are often joyful and excited. To me Mother Nature is the greatest artist and need to be protected and taken care of better than what we have given her thus far.