There is magic in chaos

If we are willing to soar beyond science and open our senses to the natural world, there is pure magic to be accessed.

This project explores the philosophy of more than human relationships and the resulting storytelling about the human experiences with other-than-humans. I’m interested in how these stories can help to change perceptions as we seek to reconnect ourselves to the natural world. The work forms part of my Masters in Fine Art study.

The focal point of the study is a Tulip tree, which I loved because of the visible eye on its trunk. As I embarked on my journey with the tree, which involved sitting for extended periods of time, one of the first things that came to me was the name Gabrielle. I later learned this means god, and is fitting as the Tulip tree symbolises divinity.

The name of the project ‘There is Magic in Chaos’ was amongst the many thoughts, words, visions and ideas that came to me whilst cultivating a more than human relationship with the tree.

As David Abram writes “Magic… in its perhaps most primordial sense, is the experience of existing in a world made up of multiple intelligences, the intuition that every form one perceives — from the swallow swooping overhead to the fly on a blade of grass, and indeed the blade of grass itself — is an experiencing form, an entity with its own predilections and sensations, albeit sensations that are very different from our own.”

The project is ongoing.