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The following artists submitted works for the Treasure of Seeds exhibition.
Australia
Having been asked to participate in this exhibition is a once in a lifetime experience and opportunity to help bring awareness of the Treasury of Seed vaults across the world. When one thinks of all the possible effects of what Global Warming and Climate Change can do, human errors such as: genetically modified crops, chemical warfare and natural disasters such as disease, famine, flooding and drought; it's no wonder we are all afraid of what or, if there will ever be a future on this earth for anyone!
I guess it is like being a part of history, bringing awareness and then making a difference for all.
As someone who has a child, I view the world in a different way. Protecting the environment in which we live is like protecting a child and knowing that he will have life and be able to give life to the next generations to come.
The seeds in this case, are gold to the beholder — a life force for future generations and a promise of tomorrow.
Australia
In Australia almost any plant I knew from home (that is Germany) is considered to be a weed. So I thought about how we, this intelligent species, not only mess up our planet with all the poisons and machinery we’ve got, but just by planting seeds into soil which don’t belong there.
We are the soil providing sustenance for other life forms. Will we breathe out Geraniums or could we grow Orchids in our hearts?
Australia
"... and what i have been preparing to say is, that in wildness is the preservation of the world. Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plough and sail for it. From the forest and wildness comes the tonics and barks which brace mankind..."
— Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, or life in the Woods." 1854
Australia
My world of fantasies are placed in two realities on the canvas: one is the creation of a relationship between communication and images, in particular the technological productions. The second are being evoked into the tiny organisms of nature and mixed with the computational world, thus creating a different image.
I recycle objects of the disposable machinery and reconstruct them as a visual representation between what is the natural and the technologic.
This complex functionality of nature is the pattern which man creates and uses. To transform life and use technological machinery, that influence humans to turn to dependency. Suggesting that these tools are what paces humans to develop progress and speed life into the construction and reproduction.
Assuming that these objects will create ‘ease and happiness” for the modern soul.
Nature and man walk in distinctive paths, one looks for the regeneration of life and thus lives its infinite species, however also man destroys and profits these resources without realising the consequences for the future humanity.
Australia
Wood Spirit
A seed of memory germinated when echos of the past washed over me like the waters of the Aegean Sea. This magical piece of nature journeyed from the shores of Gallipolli. Its spirit rekindled echos from the past, gone but not forgotten, reaching out and bonding man with the elements.
Australia
This painting is a reflection of my concern for the relationship between us people and our environment. This is being explored at this moment with my family. We have left the big city to live on a farm on the land. The essence of it is to raise our children with love and respect for nature, to grow our vegetables and run free between the trees.
So this work comes from the desire to be in nature and live a simple life. To be closer to the essence of being, to be inspired and surprised but little things. My children are the seed that one day will grow and produce fruit, we hope for the benefit of humanity and the planet.
Puerto Rico
Searching for the etymology of the Word ‘seed’, I went to my old Webster dictionary, and I found another word, ‘seedless’, that left me thinking…
I never had children and in no time I saw the metaphor. God had compensated me by planting His seeds not in my womb, but in my heart and mind. Love and creativity germinated into art and flowered, bearing the ‘treasure of seeds’ that some day may root in the hearts and minds of other artists.
Australia
Seed dream
Sweetly sleeping
in each seed
life essence is waiting for
all the futures' greatness
Nature's mimetic singing
that celebrates the transformation
The flourishing's rebirth
The feeding hopes' fruit
The shy shrub
rocked by the wind
The discreet plant
on the edge of the gorge
The tree 's roots
looking for the earth's
deepness and mistery
and its untied branches
tending to touch infinity
each leaf, a face
a promise for tomorrow
for the living souls
Australia
Seed Dreaming
Plant a seed into the ground, and the root expands to give birth. The same thing happens with a new seed of knowledge in the mind.
My story is about gathering seeds that will educate and give knowledge to people about the importance of all seeds.
Without seeds, there is no life.
Lebanon
I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms. Potatoes grow, live, and then decay, mirroring the ephemeral existence and fragility of our own human nature.
