Terry Karson: Human/Nature: A Retrospective (1950-2017)
It has been seven years since Terry Karson passed away in 2017 (1950-2017). I was with him when he died after his brief bout with cancer, and my promise to him was to carry on his legacy to the best of my ability. I am now in the stage following his death to consider how I might best accomplish this while at the same time, focus on moving our shared artistic vision forward through my own work.
Cave
Project Inspiration:
In October, 2013, National Geographic published an article entitled
Were the First Artists Mostly Women?
Handprints in eight cave sites in France and Spain were analyzed by Dean Snow of Penn State University, and three quarters of those handprints were left by women. This represents a new genesis of art history and women’s contribution to it. “People have made a lot of unwarranted assumptions about who made these things, and why”, stated Dean Snow. Perhaps, instead of incantations for the ritual hunt, the cave paintings are humanity’s earliest expressions of empathy, mutuality and deep interdependence with the non-human world.Is our relationship to human-made technologies akin to the predator-prey relationship primary to early humans?
