Emily Carr -- Victoria 1871-1931 --- Loggers’ Culls 1935
“In the forest think of the forest, not of this tree and that but the singing movement of the whole,” Carr wrote in her journal in 1935. Her perception of the interrelatedness of all things mark her foresight; this wisdom applies today as we face environmental threat. Carr challenged the notion of nature as commodity, repeatedly pointing to the devastation of clear-cutting in her paintings: contrasting humanity’s destructive work with the overarching presence of the divine in the skies above.
Emily Carr -- Victoria 1871-1931 --- Loggers’ Culls 1935
“In the forest think of the forest, not of this tree and that but the singing movement of the whole,” Carr wrote in her journal in 1935. Her perception of the interrelatedness of all things mark her foresight; this wisdom applies today as we face environmental threat. Carr challenged the notion of nature as commodity, repeatedly pointing to the devastation of clear-cutting in her paintings: contrasting humanity’s destructive work with the overarching presence of the divine in the skies above.