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DeNatural Disaster

Catastrophic events have always been delineated as natural or man-made. However, does the supposed purity of Nature make a “natural disaster” inevitable and acceptable, while human selfishness makes purposeful acts of destruction vulgar and untenable? If fire must first reduce something to cinders to enable regeneration, is it also necessary for society to annihilate part of itself before it can learn from its shame and evolve? Is it human “nature” to destroy?

In DeNatural Disaster, one may choose whether to distinguish between natural and anti-natural devastation: Is it the barrenness of a stark landscape or the remnants of a battlefield? Is it the dense black and grey of storms or the debris and smoke from a detonation? Is it the scarlet flame of a forest blaze or a bomb blast?

Disasters construct and destruct reality. They change Nature (and our nature) and define history. Destiny does not specify if it was an intervention of human brutality or the power of Nature.

DeNatural Disaster 1, 2008-2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 1, 2008-2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 2, 2008-2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 2, 2008-2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

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DeNatural Disaster 3, 2009-2012, mixed media, 26x40 inches

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DeNatural Disaster 4, 2008-2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

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DeNatural Disaster 5, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 6, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 6, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 7, 2009 mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 7, 2009 mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 8, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 8, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 9, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 9, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 10, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 10, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

DeNatural Disaster 11, mixed media, 2009, 26x40 inches

DeNatural Disaster 11, mixed media, 2009, 26x40 inches

DeNatural Disaster 12, 2009, mixed media, 26x40 inches

DeNatural Disaster 12, 2009, mixed media, 26x40 inches

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DeNatural Disater 13, 2009, mixed media, 40x26 inches

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