All prints in this series are composed using elements taken directly from my own photography.
Hiraeth
I believe returning to a deep beholding of the natural world is of vital importance, especially in an age where we increasingly disconnect ourselves from it.
⠀⠀
To behold rather than just merely see requires a slowing down, both physically and mentally.
⠀⠀
To behold rather than just merely see requires a slowing down, both physically and mentally.
Lēah
When we see nature, there is only a vague sense of it. Grass, tree, insect, bird, cloud, flower, rock. Nature as a mere background to our human centred troubles and stories.
When we behold nature, a breathing multi-layered intertwining organism with many tendrils of unfurling, expanding, swooping and gushing forth of energetic life reaches out to meet us.
Sǽcir
Rather than glance and quickly move on, to behold is to hold something in our minds and to form a deeper relationship with it. To see it's depths and details. To admire and to love it. To know that in harming it, we will harm ourselves in the process.
I believe art can act as a gateway to this. This quote from Brian Eno sums it up beautifully:
⠀
“Through art we continually re-present ourselves with things that we find beautiful, and that we find a reason to love. If anything is going to save the world, it’s going to be us falling in love with it.”
⠀
“Through art we continually re-present ourselves with things that we find beautiful, and that we find a reason to love. If anything is going to save the world, it’s going to be us falling in love with it.”
Villr
Alongside the artwork that emerges from this new exploration I'll also be documenting the process and journeys I take via my Instagram account, to give the work much more depth and context.
To buy prints in this series go to: jamesroperart.store/relics-of-the-wild
To see all new limited edition prints in this series, as soon as they're released, sign up to my newsletter here.
