According to the writer and philosopher Ernst Jünger, the Forest is a place of existential freedom.
He developed this idea as a metaphor for being able to be part of a system, but also to concurrently be able to maintain one's individuality.
'Dimensions of irrationality and myth are at home in the forest, as the irrational nourishes the capacity for independence'.
Photograph printed on Hahnemühle Luster 594mmx420mm
(2-min video, Cuttlefish bone, iPhoneX, potato chip, ants)
Artist: Myvanwy Gibson
This work documents the installation 'Cuttlebone Chip' created in Puglia, Italy as part of a group exhibition titled 'Insieme'.
The Cuttlefish - a highly evolved species that has one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of all invertebrates - possesses an internal structure called the cuttlebone. This structure has a distinct shape, size, and pattern of ridges that provides the animal with a regulatable buoyancy. The Human, on the other hand, pioneered the first computer modelled and 3-D printed ridged potato chip. This highly evolved idea was to give consumers a more three-dimensional experience and having proved to be very successful, this type of chip is now sold in more than 20 countries.
Myvanwy Gibson reflects on the relationship between technology and painting, the virtual and the real, and the natural and artificial.
Her practice with technology, an interest that was born at the beginning of her career as a video artist, developed through intense experimentation with the relationship between sound and technology to create video images.
She conceives the digital as a language that introduces different fruition parameters from traditional languages. For the artist, nature is evocation not imitation, a non-anthropocentric art where human experience, technology and the natural world intertwine, becoming the themes on which the aesthetics of the artist concentrate.
She has exhibited in numerous private and public areas such as The Australian Centre of the Moving Image, Melbourne; The International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, New York; and The Autonomous Biennale, in Venice. Her research papers have been published in Academia Letters magazine and in the IAEA New York and Vienna proceedings.