Terraven: Scarred Earth

There is an overwhelming global evidence that geologic, biospheric, atmospheric, hydrologic and other earth system processes are now altered through the exploitation of natural resources by human activities. Leaving an extensive amount of remnants from the anthropocentric activities on the already Scarred Earth, there is an alarming denial or dismissal of this scientific consensus.

Terraven starts the investigation by embracing the “Chemical Paradigm” by Iain Hamilton Grant as a model of thinking about nature. Iain compares Chemistry’s model of knowledge to other natural sciences, as a unique approach: “Analysis is one part of the equation but one understands nothing until synthesis has taken place” The Chemistry’s model added a visceral layer to the existing empirical method. In a sense, the focus lies not on the ‘nature of nature’(metaphysics), but about ‘recreating nature’. The injection of synthetic remnants from the stated cause at stake, becomes a means of production to resynthesize nature. That is the synthetic ambition.