Lucas Foglia " Natural Order" at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland
"I am Nature, am I" is the question I asked myself as a city dweller. I dreamed of living of the grid but that was when I was 12 and thought living on an isolated island would be the ultimate dream fulfilling experience. Of course I learned that this was a pipe dream. The people in this photographic exhibit are living that pipe dream made it reality to a certain degree.The natural order is that there is no natural order but chaos which forms into harmony just to dissolve back into chaos. Everything can be turned into a religious belief even living of the grid and one doesn't even have to be religious. Stunning portraits illuminate the sacredness in the ordinary, in the wild, in the hardship of wanting to get back to ones roots. We were once just another animal but we learned to transcend our instincts to be able to shape the world to our liking rather then being its victim. Of course in the process we have become victims to our likings.The only absolute is that there is no absolute no matter how far we live off the grid we can't escape the humanness which sets us apart from Nature. We have become masters of our narrative even if the narrative means a return to more primitive times we are still painfully aware of it. Once consciousness is turned on it is impossible to turn it back off again. We are as guilty as charged by ourselves.
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