Benna Gaean Maris

Earth

Series of four objects.

Date palm kernels and wax on wood,

9 x 38 x 1 cm

2019-2020

Artist Statement and Bio:

These works are related to the Originalism art manifesto. “Modern civilization has been characterized by an abnormal and unbalanced development of materialism, which determined a serious environmental and human deterioration, up to eclipsing the impalpable dimensions of metaphysics to the point that the existence of many, as shut into a Platonic Cave, has no more contact with them. Originalism refers to the origin: be that of the material, that must be as much natural as possible; be either of the concept, that must go back as much as possible to the essential principle; or be that of the expression, that must return to a status of pureness freeing itself from the schemes of the materialist hedonism.”

Full Link

http://thecriticalartist.blogspot.com/2020/06/originalism-manifesto.html