biophilic art

Biophilic art challenges our perceived separation from the rest of nature. Like biophilic design integrates nature into our cities, biophilic art is a process that helps us to presence a connection with our natural selves. By summoning up the senses and sense experience, and becoming present in and with nature, a pause moment is created, which develops into a more discerning emotional awareness of our wellbeing and that of the ecological world we impact.

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Keep BLUE HOPE Afloat

Jiwoo Choi
Jericho, NY
2023, Senior, Art

New Leaf Director Jaime Jackson is a moving image/video, digital and participatory visual artist, specialising in collaborative biophilic art (love of nature and of life). His work investigates the role of culture in the climate and ecological crisis, through collaborative co-production. Jaime creates moving image films of dancers in communion with nature and uses digital layering and projection mapping onto buildings to create biophilic moving image works.

What does it mean when we say "nature" is the artist? In October 2017, ecological artist Patrick M. Lydon brought ten blank canvases to a remote forest in the mountains of South Korea to find out. The forest was respectfully asked to spend a year making artworks on the canvases. A year and a half later, the finished canvases were exhibited in a contemporary art gallery in Seoul, and the forest was credited as the artist. The exhibition was produced by the City as Nature art and media lab, with curation and coordination by PlaceMAK gallery in Seoul, South Korea.

Today our bodies became vast, we gathered seeds in the urban forest. Today we stood motionless in the rain. Beneath the earth we found each other. Here there is a forest. Face to face with a tree, seed to seed. We gradually return to life. Our voices are shared on the shores. Among the leaves, a fullness or a gentleness. Seeds on the island. Lives. The softness came and we came too.

The video was shot in New York City in Inwood Hill forest and Greenpoint waterfront in search for seeds and a celebration of trees. Following the curatorial line, a dive into " Unexpected Territories ", the video is a poetic attend to grasp ways in which one can expand the experience of the self to embrace its wild environment. Becoming a seed protector and becoming one with a tree.