Geo treetrunks

Sammanfattning: In my thesis, I work with the connection between the deathanxiety that I felt as a child and the climate anxiety that I feel today. I am probably not alone in looking at death as something abstract and unpleasant, and with the climate crisis around the corner, that feeling has intensified for me. Having the future of humanity fundamentally shaken makes me feel as small as when I was a child and understood how big the universe was when I looked out at the stars one starry night. In my thesis I write about the anthropocene and how man may have used Christianity to justify the exploitation of nature by putting himself above it. I write about how secular man separates himself from his mortality, by separating himself from nature. Through my craft, I want to investigate the relationship between people and nature. I want to let ceramics function as a material manifestation of the duality I experience exists between man and nature. I want to let the material function as a therapeutic mirror where my worries and my feelings, thoughts and ideas are thrown back at me in new formulations. By shaping nature, I hope to be able to examine my own relationship to nature, the inner nature of man and our own mortality, birth and decay.