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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.
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.
Orem, Utah, Utah Valley University - Roots of Knowledge - Column S - Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty - notes: The English poet John Keats famously wrote in his 1819 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty". Keats's poem reflects a spirited journey society was on during his lifetime. Following the age of Reason and the pursuit of enlightened knowledge in the 18th century, intellectuals and artists began to emphasize the sentimental wisdom to be found in nature, history, and the individual in the early decades of the 19th century, through the movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism.
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.