Henriett Peczar
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Henriett Peczar
In this piece of work my goal is to shine light on the problematics of our so human centered world view. Even if today our knowledge of the world is far more advanced than it used to be but the idea of the great chain of being has been with us since the era of Ancient Greece, it was thriving at the Renaissance and it effects how we see the world and ourselves to this day. In a nutshell, this belief ranks creatures into hierarchy. On top there are the spiritual beings, then humans who have body and soul, under animals, then plants, then the different rock formations and even within these categories we can find hierarchy. Us humans we have something about hierarchy, however in my images I would like to put humankind into a different scale.
The uncanny landscape of Lanzarote was indeed the perfect location to collect my photographic puzzle pieces. The different rock formations, like the lava stone fields, volcanos and mountains surrounded by the Atlantis Ocean inspired me deeply. Therefore, I made two collages by altering the space to augment the grandiosity of the landscape itself and I put tiny human figures in every image to create this sense of tininess and sublime, which is the feeling of amazement and fear at the same time, something we can possibly feel while a thunderstorm or by looking at the enormous waves of the sea. The tradition of the sublime art was also an important guideline in my workflow because this idea connects a part of art heritage to the message I would like to spread about ecology and climate change with my hommage to the genre of the sublime art. The reason for that is I believe that positive change can only happen connected to these issues if we finally start to see ourselves the part of nature and our ecosystem and not something which is outside or above that.