2.45: Creative: Ode to Nature

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Andrea Elena Noriega
eCampus Ontario

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Ode to Nature

Andrea Elena Noriega is an Ottawa-based artist and Carleton University graduate with an MA in Applied Linguistics, and PhD (abd) in Anthropology specializing in food discourses related to health and wellness. Her artwork explores the relationships between people and non-human beings, with particular interest in the role of pollinators and food systems.

Ode to Nature

In making work about the natural environment, artists and artisans often find themselves meditating on their broader relationships with their subject. Making art about ‘nature’—whether visual, textural, performative, or otherwise—also means witnessing oneself within nature. The division between what humans make and what the world ‘outside us’ makes suddenly stops being so obvious. In this way, artists often feel deeply connected to their environments, in cognitive, physical, and psychological ways. This sense of presence can be expressed through words and images and gesture, as well as through the emotions and affect that both making and witnessing art bring about.

In the video below, multimedia artist Andrea Elena Noriega reflects on the reciprocity and relationality of humans, the rest of the living world, and art. It is at once an ode to nature and a recognition of that the line between nature and culture tends to disappear the closer we get to it.

A link to an interactive elements can be found at the bottom of this page.