Walkie-Talkie #3 ''Why Did I Stop Painting? (Part Two)''

Dear friends,

In this third ‘Walkie-Talkie,’ I continue to talk about why I stopped my practice as a visual artist to devote myself to the ecological meta-crisis.

I discuss our tendency to consider the maps we have created as more real than the terrain, how our concepts and maps prevent us from seeing solutions and possibilities because they do not fit into our concepts, and why we cannot see the various aspects of the meta-crisis, such as the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, the loss of fertile soil, the dead zones in the oceans, and so on, separately from each other and also separately from our concepts and the maps we have projected onto reality.

And I explain why I ultimately decided that art was no longer the appropriate medium for what I wanted to say, because A Biosphere Project is not an art project.

And perhaps most importantly: everyone can play a role in the transitions that are coming, and everyone really has something to contribute. No one is powerless or insignificant, and we are all ‘called’ to make a contribution.

Thank you for reading and watching, and see you in the next episode,

All the best to you,

Filip

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