WFC An International Collection of Wood-fired and Sculptural Ceramics 薪窯陶芸と彫刻陶芸 インターナショナル・コレクション Een Internationale Collectie van Houtgestookte en Beeldhouwtechnieken Keramiek Une Collection Internationale du Feu de Bois et Céramique Sculptural ????????????
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Jason Walker
Bellingham, Washington United States
What is Nature? This question is the guiding force behind my work. I feel we use the term nature very loosely in our language today, and in my work I am searching for a place or an object that embodies the word nature. According to Webster’s Dictionary, nature is something in its essential form untouched and untainted by the hands of a human being. Here lies the problem to my quest. At the very heart of our own description of nature we exclude ourselves from it. Does this mean I am not natural? Although this argument may appear esoteric, the way in which we perceive nature inadvertently describes the way in which we perceive ourselves. I feel that technology has significantly changed and continues to mold our perception of nature. I feel we are pursuing our technological aspirations with a sort of blind admiration. Collectively, we see technology as only friend. Yet, technology is both friend and foe. Besides the obvious advantages technology may bring to our lives there lie unintended consequences and underlying messages behind every creation that forever change our perceptions, our social interactions and our relationship to nature and each other. It is in this grey area that I am trying to create a narrative to examine and ask questions. For this reason I have chosen to combine imagery of technology and ecology. My work has become a self-examination as well as a form of social critique, because I am just as dependent on technology as anyone else due to the fact that I choose to participate in society. In my most recent body of work I made an attempt revert back to early methods of American artists, such as Thomas Moran or Thomas Cole from the Hudson River School of painting, so I traveled to an American ‘wilderness’ and backpacked solo with my sketchbook for ten days collecting images of landscape and ecology to bring back to the studio. From this experience, I composed a narrative based on an historical progression of different perceptions of ‘nature’ and ‘wilderness’ in America starting with the idea of manifest destiny and progressing to contemporary ideas embodied in national parks and nature preserves. Ultimately, my quest to define nature is a journey to define for myself what it means to be human in the present time.
wfc > Jason Walker Bellingham, Washington United States work 作品 werken catalogue | resume 陶歴 hervat résumé | contact 連絡先 contact contact What is Nature? This question is the guiding force behind my work. I feel we use the term nature very loosely in our language today, and in my work I am searching for a place or an object that embodies the word nature. According to Webster’s Dictionary, nature is something in its essential form untouched and untainted by the hands of a human being. Here lies the problem to my quest. At the very heart of our own description of nature we exclude ourselves from it. Does this mean I am not natural? Although this argument may appear esoteric, the way in which we perceive nature inadvertently describes the way in which we perceive ourselves. I feel that technology has significantly changed and continues to mold our perception of nature. I feel we are pursuing our technological aspirations with a sort of blind admiration. Collectively, we see technology as only friend. Yet, technology is both friend and foe. Besides the obvious advantages technology may bring to our lives there lie unintended consequences and underlying messages behind every creation that forever change our perceptions, our social interactions and our relationship to nature and each other. It is in this grey area that I am trying to create a narrative to examine and ask questions. For this reason I have chosen to combine imagery of technology and ecology. My work has become a self-examination as well as a form of social critique, because I am just as dependent on technology as anyone else due to the fact that I choose to participate in society. In my most recent body of work I made an attempt revert back to early methods of American artists, such as Thomas Moran or Thomas Cole from the Hudson River School of painting, so I traveled to an American ‘wilderness’ and backpacked solo with my sketchbook for ten days collecting images of landscape and ecology to bring back to the studio. From this experience, I composed a narrative based on an historical progression of different perceptions of ‘nature’ and ‘wilderness’ in America starting with the idea of manifest destiny and progressing to contemporary ideas embodied in national parks and nature preserves. Ultimately, my quest to define nature is a journey to define for myself what it means to be human in the present time.
Jason Walker
Bellingham, Washington United States
What is Nature? This question is the guiding force behind my work. I feel we use the term nature very loosely in our language today, and in my work I am searching for a place or an object that embodies the word nature. According to Webster’s Dictionary, nature is something in its essential form untouched and untainted by the hands of a human being. Here lies the problem to my quest. At the very heart of our own description of nature we exclude ourselves from it. Does this mean I am not natural? Although this argument may appear esoteric, the way in which we perceive nature inadvertently describes the way in which we perceive ourselves. I feel that technology has significantly changed and continues to mold our perception of nature. I feel we are pursuing our technological aspirations with a sort of blind admiration. Collectively, we see technology as only friend. Yet, technology is both friend and foe. Besides the obvious advantages technology may bring to our lives there lie unintended consequences and underlying messages behind every creation that forever change our perceptions, our social interactions and our relationship to nature and each other. It is in this grey area that I am trying to create a narrative to examine and ask questions. For this reason I have chosen to combine imagery of technology and ecology. My work has become a self-examination as well as a form of social critique, because I am just as dependent on technology as anyone else due to the fact that I choose to participate in society. In my most recent body of work I made an attempt revert back to early methods of American artists, such as Thomas Moran or Thomas Cole from the Hudson River School of painting, so I traveled to an American ‘wilderness’ and backpacked solo with my sketchbook for ten days collecting images of landscape and ecology to bring back to the studio. From this experience, I composed a narrative based on an historical progression of different perceptions of ‘nature’ and ‘wilderness’ in America starting with the idea of manifest destiny and progressing to contemporary ideas embodied in national parks and nature preserves. Ultimately, my quest to define nature is a journey to define for myself what it means to be human in the present time.
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