Last weekend during the open days @artsgallery_simonejansen a beautiful curated show by @simone_jansen_ and @yvonne_root_.
This work derived from a research into the world of Alexandre von Humboldt, who I recently grew to admire. Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing them for the first time from a modern Western scientific point of view. In his biography, Humboldt talks about his observations of landscapes and connects his ideas to those of romanticists like Goethe. Von Humboldt motivated a holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity. On the basis of observations generated during his travels, he described local impacts of development causing human-induced climate change and warned future generations about it. In her reflective works, I explores these ideas and put forward the idea that everything is more connected that one might think. The stars, the planet, drastically changing landscapes, and humans in the midst of it all.
