reading "reproducing decay and damage" made me think a lot about our efforts as artists, and alchemists, to recreate the natural world around us - normally it seems people tend to move towards lifestyles that offer some stability, predictability, routine.... and I think as artists, we often try to allow for our creative practice to move us into realms unknown.... allowing the whimsical, demanding, crushing, powerful, subtle, unpredictability that nature embodies to determine our next piece of 'art' seems like it's right in line with our tendency to create this alter existence through art-making.... at the same time, in a way wolshen's whole process could also be seen as an attempt to tame nature, to make those processes his own... is the intention to make those foreign processes predictable and routine also?
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