Caleb McMurry
Seen and Vanished 4
Work from my BFA senior review, fall 2010.
This body of work looks into the age-old idea of transcendentalism and our relationship with nature. There are two different ideas of transcendentalism, eastern and western. While both notions of transcendentalism drive from man’s experience in nature, the western idea is that nature is beyond man, reflecting a creator or deity. In eastern thought, transcendentalism is traditionally seen as man and nature living in harmony, both reflecting a greater truth, together. In the images, I was hoping to capture a more universal idea of transcendentalism and to join both trains of thought. In the images, the human presence is inseparable from the space around it, reflecting the eastern ideas of harmony in transcendentalism.
Seen and Vanished 4
Work from my BFA senior review, fall 2010.
This body of work looks into the age-old idea of transcendentalism and our relationship with nature. There are two different ideas of transcendentalism, eastern and western. While both notions of transcendentalism drive from man’s experience in nature, the western idea is that nature is beyond man, reflecting a creator or deity. In eastern thought, transcendentalism is traditionally seen as man and nature living in harmony, both reflecting a greater truth, together. In the images, I was hoping to capture a more universal idea of transcendentalism and to join both trains of thought. In the images, the human presence is inseparable from the space around it, reflecting the eastern ideas of harmony in transcendentalism.