Noel Hefele

There is an opportunity in considering landscape as an environment that we are always in and of, subsequently exploring it through art can create steps toward a more responsible ecology of place.
The world is an entangled field of relationships. Dualism is an oversimplification that is harmful to o...

There is an opportunity in considering landscape as an environment that we are always in and of, subsequently exploring it through art can create steps toward a more responsible ecology of place.
The world is an entangled field of relationships. Dualism is an oversimplification that is harmful to our current ecological condition—when we view the non-human world as objects, it is a precursor for abusing the world as well as divorcing ourselves from any responsibility for our planetary impact. We are not the sole subject of the narrative of Earth. Our landscapes are woven with the stories, trajectories and agencies of human, animal, plant, mineral, idea and thing. We have a dependence on this landscape of things, alive and material, which in turn is dependent on us.
Where does the individual end? Where are the landscapes we live in. You live here? I painted you. My work is a collaboration with landscape to produce effects in myself and others, aesthetically and emotionally reconfiguring ways of seeing the world.