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| At the centre is nature. I know no other
force in my life as present and powerful, no element or
idea or secret as profound or as simple. Nature grounds
me, spiritually as much as physically. It is where my
life begins, and for all I know where it ends, and it
is where I look to understand the questions and comforts
that being in the world lays out for me. |
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| Learning. I know I learn by pushing
the limits of my sense of knowing, by challenging the
patterns of my beliefs, experimenting with their efficacy
and possibility. Learning is not something I do, but something
that happens to me in the course of curiosity. A kind
of playful dissatisfaction with contentment. Knowing there
is more to know. Differences. Interpretations. Points
of entry and departure. |
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| My work is an attempt at or process
of learning about that which I feel has most to teach
me. As one might put questions to a sage or mentor, I
put them to nature. And I do this by placing it in a position
where it must speak out. I move it out of context and
into a relationship that is unfamiliar. There are too
many things I take for granted, too much about nature
I cannot see because I see it always. By pushing the limits
of what I know it to be, I learn more of what it actually
is, even if by learning what it is not. No matter how
unfamiliar nature becomes in the process, or how unanswered
my questions may remain, I know, at bottom, that I am
learning more about the thing which grounds me. |
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| As you view my work you will, by default,
be forced to consider nature out of context. Each piece
is its displacement. And whether or not you try to trace
the emotions and ideas they explore, to consider them
as meaningful in their questions or dismiss them as disrespectful
in their treatment of what should be held sacred and simple
—you will do so by and through your own relationship
with nature. |
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These pieces that are the body of my
work proclaim no path to insight. Uncertain, even, that
they can take you where you have not been before. And
more than this, they just might take you back. Back to
what is commonplace. —That common place. Remind
you of what is too familiar.
Tell you what you already know.
See what you have seen.
Be where you are. |
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— Nina Leo |
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