T e x t

Biophilic exploration of the sublime

Artist statement by Melissa Fletcher

May 2014

Using found images and personal archives of the sublime, my work focuses on our biophilic relationship with the natural world. I believe what seems like chaos and randomness on our planet actually has structure, codes and pattern. Our world, from galactic to microscopic, all share in these patterns - and we are a part of it.

By hand cutting physical collage, my work signifies the uniqueness and self-similarities found in nature. Furthermore, I create moving collage by intuitively constructing geometric structures and instinctively match these structures to their environmental plains.

Infinite, immeasurable, incomprehensible, yet eternal and peaceful; the sublime in nature provokes an emotional and spiritual reaction within us. Like the poet William Wordsworth, I use the sublime in nature as a way of seeking enlightenment. The more I study nature documentaries and are continuously amazed by molecular science, the more I see how life is so finely tuned and perfected with its ever repeated patterns. We, and life itself cannot be here purely by chance.