Feeling Big & Being Small

“Feeling Big & Being Small is a group show which explores differing approaches to the making of contemporary Landscape art. It encourages viewers to reflect upon how diversity in image-creation lends credit to the power of individual introspection, which both contrasts and illuminates the feelings of smallness imparted by vast interconnected landscapes.

In the current era, during which human affect on the natural world is not only regularly acknowledged but feared, the grief of the past and present needs to be countered by a hopefulness for the present and future. A person is not so small that loneliness would be a vacuum and not so large that they cannot help watching where they step.

A method towards building collective consciousness (to counter environmental individualism) must understand that accountability means grieving, a process which requires personal introspection, and therefore leads us towards greater interconnection.

This group show, titled Feeling Big & Being Small, focuses on approaches to the Landscape genre which highlights the assorted introspective qualities of daydreaming, automatism, situational emotion, temporal materiality, plein air meditations, and reimagined geographies. The exhibition displays artwork with the curatorial assertion that self-insertion (AKA the hand of the artist) is the future of the landscape genre–allowing both the artist and the viewer to reflect upon a world in which their own unique interpretations are pivotal to impacting the Earth we live within.“