Geoderm - Part 2 (Anticlimax :/ )

            

I have found in my results what I would like to call a meaningful anticlimax. To be honest, my gesture had no lasting effect and was reduced to just a gesture. The lack of effect can be seen in a few perspectives. On the one hand, it is a definite affirmation of nature’s power. Shortly after I planted the red fluid, it rained, and the day after, and the next day, then it snowed. Nature literally drowned any hope of the plants suckling on the blood surrogate, and masked my influence. I have been examining another viewpoint as well. Given that the gardens and nature I injected are manmade, and the environment around is governed by man, was injecting the plants with fluid really changing anything? To clarify, can a glass of water be tainted by ice? My injection of man into nature was of no consequence as it was simply injecting humanity into a manmade construct.

            On a core level, this is in fact a manifestation of nature’s dominance. It may have been my error of the dosage or frequency that caused the want of effect. It may have been the inevitability of nature’s power that manifested over my small, small art project. It may have been a failure of man to communicate with nature; a primordial and eternal failure which lasts both less than a second and for all of time. It is a conflict, a struggle. We, as a race, fight against the course of nature such that we might preserve our beauty and prolong our lives. We have reason to rage against the dying of the light, it’s only natural.

            I contend, based on this idea that my project in many ways reflects on man’s attempt to live. With varied injections and methods, both specific and general, we attempt to shift and/or augment our reality. In the end, we find it inevitable that nature reclaims its matter. The universal continuum of matter need not be a religious concept, since we are all star stuff. These age-old platitudes mean less in the theoretical world than they do in the practical world, but they are signposts and essences of the modern day.