Landscape genre: “Landscape painting, the depiction of natural scenery in art. Landscape paintings may capture mountains, valleys, bodies of water, fields, forests, and coasts and may or may not include man-made structures as well as people. Although paintings from the earliest ancient and Classical periods included natural scenic elements, landscape as an independent genre did not emerge in the Western tradition until the Renaissance in the 16th century. In the Eastern tradition, the genre can be traced back to 4th-century-CE China.” – Britannica. com
For photography, it has been adopted since the beginning of its invention. It is now almost a cliché (postcards with sunset) and the best seller genre ( the most expensive photography is about landscape – Gustave Le Gray 19th century / Andreas Gursky 20th century
So Nature is replaced by photogenic landscapes, Nature is seen through a ‘Machine’
The definition of ‘Nature’ for humans is a constructed and organized process, not born by itself. It is more a representation than an objective view. In the series ‘Internal Feng Shui’, a fictional nature inspired by feng shui concepts has been staged inside rooms.
But using “natural” materials and objects, the series shows that with the right ethics, the ‘Machine’ is not incompatible with Nature, rather it can magnify Nature as a creative tool.
