revolution

Rebecca Solnit writes; "Disasters often unfold a little like revolutions. They create a tremendous rupture with the past. Today has nothing much in common with yesterday -- in how the system works or doesn’t, in what people have in common, in how they see their priorities and possibilities."

My most recent work makes a connection between recent disasters and the impermanence of all things. Source material for the work comes from images of destruction after the so-called "Super Storms" that have hit hard across the world. There is something about these destructed man-made creations that become almost human. That they too, are impermanent and destructible. That they can be lost and ruined, dying and gone forever. 

My work has always been about the tension between the natural world and man kinds struggle over impermanence. This tension creates revolutions. I believe that is terrifying for most of us because it shows us how little control we truly have. We are human, destructible, impermanent beings and the world is much the same. We all will wake up one day and realize that today has nothing in common with yesterday. Within that time lapse something had been destroyed or created, lost or forgotten. 

The only thing we have is what we can control, because there will also be someone or something starting a revolution.