Is Nature a force to be reckoned with and hopefully conquered? This post is a prompt to think about our relationship with nature. Join us!
I won’t have an essay today, just a few thoughts about this photo and the connection it represents to me. I’d love to hear your thoughts, too. If you blog, feel free to link to your post about this photo or topic in the comments below. This is the 5th Random Nature Connection post in my series.
A Force to Be Reckoned
This old tractor is one of my favorite photo subjects. It looks pretty no matter what the season out here. But it’s an “old thing” and it rarely sees much activity anymore. Back in the day when my grandfather used this tractor to cultivate his fields I doubt the people thought much about reconnecting to nature. Nature was still very much a part of everyday life, and I imagine that connection wasn’t looked upon with fondness most of the time.
Nature was a force to be reckoned with and hopefully conquered. But it was also something that people worked with, knowing there were limitations on what could or could not be expected to yield in the battle for dominance.
A Painting
In my artwork, I am always dealing with forces to be reckoned with. I make the paints from rocks, which have weathered through time and slowly evolved into the sandstones of various hues that I need. When I break the stones and grind them, it is me who is the force. And when I paint, it is a dance. I have the idea, but it is the creative spirit and randomness of events that determines the outcome of those paintings.
Here’s the painting I did of that old tractor:
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