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Nitrogen

Title: Nitrogen

Artist: Paula Flores

Year: 2016

Material: Paper, acrylic paint, glitter and canvas
Dimensions: 330 x 200

Exhibited at: Kunsthalle Exnergasse

Description

Multiplyin vegetables printed on transparent paper. A shrine that protects vegetables that have accompanied the human race for hundreds of years. A map as long as the wall demonstrating how land is ransacked and its nature and culture bled for the improvement of another country. Algae spreading throughout the ocean due to excess of synthetic nitrogen in the agricultural fields. Words that are not familiar, but we eat them. We eat them because we are told that they are good, that they are better than nature. A whole wall dedicated to diversity. To multiple problems we have created trying to wipe out the earth’s diversity and all its inhabitants.

I want to interrupt

I want to interrupt the cycle of humans

The cycle that we live in now 

The one where other lives don’t matter much

The one where we run on machines instead of the earth

Where instant gratification is the goal

Where natural time is not appreciated but believed to be to slow

Excess, excess all we see and all we want

NITROGEN, of course, synthetic nitrogen

What makes the natural world grow in an unnatural way

I see a problem here. 

A problem with diversity

No diversity in the soil

No diversity in the sea

No diversity in humans

Constant modification to natural cycles and natural beings for the sole purpose of homogenization

Homogenization of cultures of food that represents no history other then the industrial 

A mass movement of humans around the world trying to survive the interrupted cycle

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