Tag Archives: Art

Tree Veneration in the Time of the Anthropocene: Why Trees Matter and Why a Cultural Response Matters Too

This article introduces the Tree Veneration Society (TVS), an interdisciplinary charity of eco-artists and scientists dedicated to fostering cultural and ecological awareness of trees. While scientific research clearly demonstrates the essential role of forests in climate regulation and biodiversity, the article argues that meaningful environmental action also requires shifts in perception, values, and cultural narratives. Drawing on Deep Ecology and eco-art practice, the article presents tree veneration as a relational framework that reconnects humans with the living world. TVS’s exhibitions, workshops, and public programs are discussed as practical models for cultivating ecological care and responsibility.

As above, so below: ‘Organic Worlds’ celebrates human-nature symbiogenesis

Curated by Dr. Charissa Terranova at the SP/N Gallery at The University of Texas at Dallas, ‘Organic Worlds: Symbiogenesis in Art’ tackles its subject matter(s) of organisms and organicism, and, arguably, of the Great Chain of Being and Lynn Margulis’ theory of symbiogenesis. ‘Organic Worlds’ seats mankind as conscious players in the biological Great Chain of Being — below God and above rock — and invites the layman viewer to introspect upon and engage with the commemorations of life in this exhibition.

Reflections on the Evolution of Consciousness

Primarily a visual artist, Paul Forte also writes essays and poetry. Forte’s career as an artist began in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970’s. Influenced early on by Conceptual art, Forte has employed a variety of media over the years to realize ideas, including making and self-publishing artist’s books and related objects.
“An experimental approach to art making coupled with an abiding sense of the poetic are the hallmarks of my art. It is an art that has explored this approach and sensibility through a variety of media and artforms over the years: Word works and poetry, artist’s books and book works, performance art, drawings, collage, montage, and assemblage. Central to much of this work is the use of found or appropriated material.”

Rutherford Chang: Hundreds and Thousands

Rutherford Chang’s first institutional solo presentation ‘Hundreds and Thousands’ is at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Rutherford Chang (1979-2025) was a New York-based conceptual artist whose practice revolved around collection, repetition, cultural memory, and value. His work often recontextualized everyday media, transforming their significance to reveal underlying cultural narratives. This marks the first posthumous exhibition for the artist and first solo museum exhibition as well as the worldwide debut of several works.

Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth

Mesmerizing, light-infused artworks take over the Bruce Museum’s Sculpture Gallery in “Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth”. Showcasing nine luminescent sculptures, the exhibition offers a powerful introduction to the work of internationally acclaimed sculptor Gisela Colón, whose radiant forms explore the profound forces and energies of the natural world.

The Architecture of Misalignment: Visualizing Domain Coordination in Embodied Experience

Contemporary approaches to emotion and embodiment often diverge along bottom-up (somatic) and top-down (cognitive) lines, giving rise to disagreements about the origins of feeling, the role of meaning, and regulation mechanisms. This paper introduces a visual–operational framework that distinguishes body-led and mind-led domains as coupled operating systems governed by different rules for safety, security, attention, and boundary behavior. Misalignment is modeled as forced single-domain operation, while coherence is defined as restored domain coordination enabling voluntary switching and bidirectional exchange. Through diagrams and visual translation artifacts, the framework functions as an orientation interface that renders existing approaches complementary and interoperable.

Polar Light

Steve Giovinco is a New York-based photographer and a Yale MFA graduate. His night photographs at the edge of inhabited places trace evidence of epic but subtle change. Informed by the environment, history, and culture, his most recent work documents the extremely remote arctic Greenland with the goal of visualizing transformation since climate-related statistics can be difficult to grasp. His work is held in numerous public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the California Museum of Photography.

Droplets of Cosmic Light

Geraldine Cox’s work is about finding resonant ways to express hidden aspects of nature and the journey of discovery. This research has taken her to the heart of the atom, the beginnings of the Universe and the essence of light. In 2020, she won the prestigious American Institute of Physics Gemant Award for ‘Physics Through Art’.

Revealing the Unseen

Susan Eyre is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, installation and print processes, creating work to encourage a sense of wonder in the everyday and an awareness of an entangled universe. She explores cosmological and geological phenomena with a particular fascination for cosmic rays and magnetic fields. Employing simple technology to assist in revealing the unseen and extending the boundaries of human sensory perception, her work brings the viewer into tangible contact with invisible natural forces, embracing the unfathomable by appealing to human scale and presence.