How to Look at Natures? - Art and the Capitalocene
How to Look at Natures? - Art and the Capitalocene (2023)
‘Falling Deer’ is the first in a series of playsets depicting peculiar events in my life. While they are very different kinds of experiences, they share one important aspect - they provide hints of a non-ordinary reality. Major or minor, these events stopped me in my tracks and made me look back and wonder. Over the years and decades, my mind keeps looping back to these events, as if they beg to be remembered.
The Falling Deer event whispers of an intrinsic magical interconnectedness between humans and non-humans of all kinds. It messes with assumed hierarchies and suggests that the deeper knowing is not ours but that of a deer, a bush, a wave, or even a cliff.
The playset is an actual playset, priced as a toy and sold on the e-commerce site Etsy, in my store ‘Magic Password’. That specific method of dissemination is an important aspect of the project. When a range of people enact the event, or other scenarios using the various parts of the set, the meaning or purpose of the event might reveal itself over time.
