Affinity With Nature

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Affinity with Nature



Wolfgang Laid is a very well known artist in Europe that has an “ affinity with nature”. In one of the paragraphs that talk about Laid, the authors mention that the artist has a background in medical school. He passed his exams, but he did not choose to go on his way of becoming a doctor. On the contrary he called himself an artist the moment he passed his medical exams. The authors also mention that Laid believes that there is more to everything that surrounds us than just the simple existence of things, but also the meanings that make us see the changes around us. Laid thinks that the experience he has with nature is the most important.

His main theme in his artworks is pollen and also as the authors mention it is also the main material that he uses to create his art. To express the changes of time he chooses many types of pollen and he gathers it himself from many different type of plants. For many times it takes as long as a whole season in order to be able to gather as much pollen as he thinks he needs.

One interesting art piece that he created is not made out of pollen, but it still took him a long time to make and made him experience with patience. The artwork is made out of marble and milk, also called Milkstone. During a period of time he managed lay the milk on top of the marble in suck a way that the “marble and milk became one” as he says. He tends to express his interest in this particular combination of forms because it takes a period of time to come up with a change in form. His artwork is very simple and full of unity.

I believe his main concern is the relationship between the human body and nature. He expresses a lot of patience when he is picking up the pollen, or pouring the milk on to the marble stone. Usually nature has its moments of calm, also moments of irritating anger. As the human body tends to express anger, happiness or calm, the author sees a...