Nathalie Lawrence

I find comfort in knowing that I am not alone,

& romance among the ruins and ruble of antiquity.

There are times of peace and times of war.

It’s in our nature.

All of us underneath the same stars.

I am a microcosm, a single entity in a vaster picture. I exist in the present.

the dust becomes me, a single entity, a particle of sand and yet… in it I am a vaster picture of what I am. Love, Truth, and light. Wanting.

 History repeats itself, I am therefore I think I am.

Do you suffer? Does the dust in your brain just blow away.

Don;t let your heart fall too deep.

History is but is forgotten in an instant, a moment, a single glance.

What is the scope for which you see the world?

I read books as I look at art through-out the ages. Listen to the news to learn about our world in the present day.

All in the quest to search for meaning.

This has happened before. ‘

Open up. Become. Believe.

OPEN UP.

In another place, another culture, another time.

We are all connected.

 We all share a common ancestor,

share the same human genome. It’s all a matter of biology.

We are all Human.

Our lizard brain, the Medulla Oblongata, rules the world.

Stuck to the ground. Walking with the shadows don’t you think of me. Surreal. Omnipresent, omnipetitnt. I wish I was more… More than human. But…..

Cognition,

Makes us both human and animal at the same time.

I am the Human-Animal.

Fierce, Honest & Proud.

A mixture of instincts, experiences, and psychology.

Animals are often imbibed with human characteristics in mythology and folklore.

A testement to the forgotten past.

The human narrative is filled with animals, hybrid’s, and mutated beasts. Each one manipulated to show the inner workings of our mind.

Adapting some animals to live with us….. While respecting others in their wild habitats.

 I am the apex predator, and the prey. Completely adaptable, unique, and never homogenous.

The human animal creates it’s habitat. Invents it’s infrastructure, and records its history.

The world is ever-changing….and so are we.

A microcosm, of technology and history.

One of many, and one of a kind.

 In being human, we connect past, present and future.

It can be measured, it can be felt, it can be built.

I use Hammered and welded steel, chopped and sanded wood as my tools to communicate my place to the world. Creating three-dimensionally, so that my ideas inhabit the same space as the audience. In my labor there is authenticity. In my life as I am faced with difficult situations, I look for guidance in the stories that proceeded me. I seek wisdom and understanding in both my research and the process for which I create my art. Intuitively working, a broad idea to guide me. I discover where I am in the larger narrative. I create a new lexicon that makes sense to me in the present.

Hero’s, and heroines, Villains, and plebes. Bravery, love, sacrifice, honor and duty. The story arch, the journey, the adventure.

 Among the human archive what can be learned? What does history teach us?

 So many answers, to one great question. My simple solution…..

Let us be kind.