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The Globe, Germany and America
90 x 60 cm
The Globe, America and Egypt
300 x 200 cm
114 photographs patched in total.
The Globe, Norway and Japan
300 x 200 cm
193 photographs patched in total.
The Globe, America and United Kingdom
91 x 60 cm
4,9501.55
MILES IN THE GLOBE
‘Artistic beauty presents the harmony between a formal ordering of nature as intelligible to us and our cognitive faculties.’[1]The digital images are carefully manipulated with the landscape of America, Egypt, Japan, Norway and United Kingdom. They are significantly inspired by Immanuel Kant’s philosophy theory. Making a work of nature needs to have logical sense to understand natural phenomenon and cognition. The project follows this sensibility and began to focus on the philosophical analysis of cognition, knowledge and experience to understand the difference between nature and rational being.
The structure of the work is inspired by the idea of map that allows the explorer to travel the world beyond the visual horizon within 24,901.55 Miles in the Globe. She travelled and captured natural scenery to study natural phenomena and structure. She also examines aesthetic and moral through visual art to extend the finite being of vision, sense and imagination.
Nature to Kurosawa symbolises an original world that existed long before human being. . It goes beyond political notion because life itself does not recognise the borders of nations. If we leave our separated culture behind, human can transcend reason to admire this beautiful world.
[1] Crawford, W D (1974), Aesthetic and the Supersensible. In: Kant’s Aesthetic Theory. London: The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 134