Drowned Earth
As the earth comes to rest
the sound of water
life among the roots
When I imagine what the earth will look like in 100 years, the image that comes to mind most emphatically is one of an earth with sharply rising sea levels. The vastly reduced life that remains in the warmed and poisoned oceans will find shelter and food in the flooded mangrove forests and tropical and temperate coastal forests.
Nature will adapt to the new conditions over time, there is no doubt. Nature has always done that since the creation of the earth. Whether humanity, and many other species as we know them today, have been given the time to do the same is very much open to question.
In this collection of new artworks I show you how I see the earth of, say, a few centuries from now. A fusion of the forests and the oceans, with hopefully in the distant future a rich ecosystem that has managed to adapt to the new circumstances.
Will there still be room for humans in that world?
Yes, I think there will. Will there also be room for "civilized" Western man? No, unless they learn to be one with nature again. It will take several generations before that happens. I sincerely wonder whether the generations of Western man who are now living on earth will be able to bring about this transformation. More time is needed for that, I fear....
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Bloom
Pulsating blue
float gently between the trees
forest in bloom
When huge numbers of jellyfish, or any plant or animal, appear suddenly, it is called a ‘bloom’. Jellyfish in a bloom can number in the millions.
Symbiosis
The Other World
You ask me why I live
alone in the mangrove forest,
at the edge of the infinite sea.
I smile, I am silent
until even my soul grows quiet:
it lives in the other world,
one that no one owns.
The trees bloom.
The waves keep coming.
Inspired by the poem ‘I Make My Home in the Mountains’
Li Po (701-762 )
Click here to read more about mangrove forests
Blooming Forest
Bright sunlight dances
Coral reefs breathe new colors
Old forests in bloom
Click here to read more about coral reefs
Travelers
Dark sounds fill the void
A strong back breaks the waves
Travelers of the deep
Click here to read more about humpback whales
Homo ipsum perdere
Originally a subspecies of homo sapiens, which, however, in the course of the 20th century developed into a species completely alienated from nature to such an extent that anno early 21st century it can be seen as a separate species.
Homo ipsum perdere ("man who destroys himself") is distinguished from homo sapiens, apart from the mentioned alienation from nature, by an unfounded sense of superiority over all other species on earth -including homo sapiens-.
Also, the homo ipsum perdere is guided by greed and jealousy, wages war against his own species, rigorously and permanently destroys his habitat -especially the subspecies homo ipsum perdere destructus which predominates in the richest, most developed countries-, is willing to exploit every living creature and to exterminate them to extinction, and murders his own fellow species out of hatred, greed, jealousy or sheer stupidity.
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Drowned Eart series, not framed
Drowned Earth series, 7 prints, printed on museum quality fine art cotton paper, no frame. Paper size 15x15cm, ~6x6". Print size 10x10cm, ~4x4".
Price without shipping costs: €90 / US$95 / DKK675
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Drowned Earth series, framed and with passe-partout
Drowned Earth series, 7 prints, printed on museum quality fine art cotton paper, walnut color glassless wooden frame, white passe-partout. Frame size ~17x17cm, ~6.7x6.7“. Paper size 15x15cm, ~6x6". Print size 10x10cm, ~4x4"
Price without shipping costs: €230 / US$245 / DKK1700
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Living In The Other World
You ask me why I live
alone in the mangrove forest,
at the edge of the infinite sea.
I smile, I am silent
until even my soul grows quiet:
it lives in the other world,
one that no one owns.
The trees bloom.
The waves keep coming.
Inspired by the poem ‘I Make My Home in the Mountains’
Li Po (701-762 )
Variation on the work 'The Other World', created for an online exhibition.
Swimming In Tears II
While trees cry
fish shed their tears
in endless waves
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All artworks on this website are available as Open Edition fine art print and as Limited Edition fine art print in any size, on fine art cotton paper up to a maximum size of the shortest side of 110 centimeters ~ app. 43 inches*, unless a photo specifies that certain editions / sizes are no longer available.
For works with the text 'Digital art', see the page with info on those works.
*Ask for the maximum sizes on other types of paper.
Availability
All photos on this website are available as Open Edition fine art print and as Limited Edition fine art print in any size, on fine art cotton paper up to a maximum size of the shortest side of 110 centimeters ~ app. 43 inches*, unless a photo specifies that certain editions / sizes are no longer available.
*Ask for the maximum sizes on other types of paper.
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