RUNIC
INSCRIPTION
In art we find many images of nature. How Images of nature varies is often
related to general values in societies. How we look upon nature and how we
reproduce nature in art is continuously changing.
NATURE AS MOTIF IN HISTORY
If we study motifs of nature, 1700th century (A.D) is an example of radical
changes in this area. Before this century the images of nature in paintings
had many symbolic meanings. But during the coming decade a radical change
developed in society, and with this, the images of nature also changed. To
paint a tree had no longer a symbolic meaning (as the tree of life).
Trees were now a background to sceneries in the foreground.
A MARGINAL VALUE
Even today we image nature as a background or rather a stereotype for something
marginal and common. And this is how it is! Nature has become a stereotype
for common values today. How do this stereotypes look like? Do we expect something
from them? We may find answers to these questions if we take a closer look
at tourism
With tourism we focus on experience. It is expected to experience
something when we meet nature. Is it possible for nature to respond to all
expectations we have created.
CHANGES OF POSITION
Have our expectations of what we can experience in nature has become disproportional
big in relations to what nature actually is?
RUNIC INSCRIPTION
In pictures, nature usually pose as a front for figures and scenarios, here
we can see how a motif of animals has become a front for nature. This is a
game where the motif, the art and nature itself have changed positions.