The Earth-Self Manifesto

Despite the uncertainty of understanding, there seems to exist a shared human imperative to make one’s mark and to be understood, across time and space. Between the mark and understanding lies the realm of belief. Ultimately, art seeks to elicit belief and create a place of shared understanding, or mutually understood illusion. Stewart Haugh seeks to inform the art space, using multiple horizons and the depiction of time within artworks. In doing so, rules of art must necessarily be broken, subverted and ignored.

 

Some thoughts that arise:

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What does it mean to be alive and living on an ever-changing Earth, across time?

 

How does the viewpoint of relativity mediate art and belief?

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What occurs when we disrupt our belief in the depiction of time in a linear form, with a static point of reference?

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How can art convey space and time?

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Where does truth, or understanding intersect with belief?

 

Who would we be without the colonising effects of religion?

 

The Earth-Self Manifesto is an attempt to explain the colonisation of our spiritual selves?

 

Who we may be without organised religion separating us from our relationship with the Earth, a partnership or custodianship that transcends the religiously condoned practices of ownership and exploitation?i 

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Who might we become if we reconnected with our Earth-Self?

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