“Making Nature”
"Making Nature" was created half on Paper (Ballpoint pen)
11 of
Jan. 2002 at a conference (Haus am Waldsee/Berlin) and half
using only
“Painter”(Metacreations) in spring 2002.
Print: Piezo-Print on Somerset Velvet Size: Paper: 50x35 cm, Picture: 40x27 cm Copies: 25, numbered and signed, and 5 artist's copies (I-V) Price: 400.‒ Euros Artist: Björn Dämpfling
The title of this print “Making Nature” was also the title of this
meeting between artists and scientists. Since this title set the
agenda, it is not hard to guess that the main topics were forming—in
the best sense—and deforming nature and the environment, as well as
the question what role science and art play in this context. There
were many good lectures by speakers who knew their field. And there
were lectures and especially commentary to which it bordered on the
impossible to react, because if one just had hinted at how wrong such
statements were, or even pointed out the degree of contradiction and
sheer incoherence in them, one would not have been able to avoid
sounding offensive. I vividly remember perorations to which the only
self-defense was writing polemical statements into my drawing, thus
avoiding screaming or having to leave. Because playing the role of
head teacher would have offended me even more. In the end this became
a laidback, serenely ironic and nonetheless a “green” image.