Water Body
James Aldridge
Painting
I’m a big believer in the ability of embodied, arts-based practices to provide experiences of connection and belonging, and glimpses of a world where inherited concepts don’t limit our understanding of our place within ecosystems, the impact of those ecosystems on our bodies and vice versa.
James Aldridge, Ecological artist
Website https://www.jamesaldridge-artist.co.uk/
This work brings to mind an essay by Rene ten Bos, framing the art + water collective 2022 https://v2.nl/publications/art-water
Rene observes ‘Leonardo da Vinci …understood like no other how the sea was connected to life. In the same way that blood ensures that people can breathe using their lungs, the sea ensures that the world can breathe with the tides …
Leonardo who we can regard as the pioneer of the Gaia hypothesis, speaks to many people’s imaginations: the incoming and outcoming tides denote that the sea is one pulsating lung attached to the big rock that is mother earth. The sea is thus a vital organ that forms part of a bigger and much heavier body’.