Artist
Joanna Pollner
Category
Urban
Medium
Pencil on Bristol paper
Date
November 25, 2023
The drawing presents a Lotus growing from an urban setting. The contemplation on plants in relation to the city is something that interested Joanna. Lotus has a unique ability to grow on mud. The ground of urban settings while polluted, perhaps something organic can grow out of it, even in terms of psychological development from suffering to none suffering state.
Joanna is inspired by Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94) who created garden landscapes within bustling cities. Joanna’s work is in the Urban category. As climate change accelerates in its course of manmade pollution, if society can disassemble ecological harmony likewise it can also be reconstructed back, perhaps the end result will not be the same, however a new formation will be present.
This process presents itself as the transmutation of society as one living organism paving the way for new cycles and new creations yet to come. Challenges pose new frontier of opportunities. Dire circumstances of our ecosystem should not inhibit the perception of hope and yet with the level of acceptance the process of action arises like Lotus which comes out of murky waters so shall society.
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