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Ecological Art Defining Our Practice a creative process that recognizes the historic dichotomy between nature and culture and works towards healing the human relationship to the natural world and its ecosystems. Eco-art is also fundamentally interdisciplinary. We cannot rely on the art world as the only point of engagement and interpretation and must utilize other perspectives. Furthermore, the artists involved in this practice cannot confine their learning or production to art. In this interdisciplinary model, artists expand their practice by moving outside their discipline and its institutionalized relationship to society. Eco-Art expands each of the combined perspectives, thus providing artists with a new path to social engagement. Inherent in this path is the responsibility for artists to educate themselves in multiple disciplines. In turn, the work needs to be received and evaluated for the totality of its intention and not by traditional artistic standards alone.
"First Nature is nature per se, unmediated by human knowing. From this starting point then, all we can know is second nature, nature mediated by thought, and all thought occurs inside culture. Second Nature is a concept which may help resolve the problem of avoiding the extremes of a too-sanguine belief in the capacity of humans to change, on the onehand, and biologistic reductionism, on the other."
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Ecology: Ecological restoration
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