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Utilitas (Mediterraneum) I Drawing

benjamin parker

United Kingdom

Drawing, Ink on Paper

Size: 15.7 W x 19.7 H x 0 D in

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This artwork was selected for the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2017. The Utilitas series explores the relationship of human beings within nature. The term Utilitas (usefulness in Latin) refers to the act of making nature a commodity. Although members of the animal kingdom, we constantly quest to deny this fact and separate ourselves from nature. This series of images examines and comments on the socio-political and cultural constructs developed to create the illusion of dominance or ownership over nature and our environment – ranging from scientific classification and exploration to rituals of ownership through naming, from religious division to revised evolution through man-made (un-natural) selection. This artwork features the image of a boat, a reference to the act of migrating. Animals migrate to survive, to reach new resources. In this sense, migrating is a natural act. When human beings migrate, we follow primitive behaviour patterns. Trying to limit or stop migration is one of the many ways for mankind to dominate nature.

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Drawing:Ink on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15.7 W x 19.7 H x 0 D in

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I am an artist specializing in painting, etching and drawing. My works reflect on the struggle between the need to distance ourselves from our animalistic, primitive nature (or dominate it), and the inherent desire for contact with it.

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Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, London, London, London, London, London, London

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