Barriers, Bridges, and Being

Upon hearing about this project, I was excited but also concerned about making an adequate Video. I had never used the app before this, so I was unfamiliar with the media. A few seconds of video is a hard restriction to work with, especially when I was trying to make sure my videos had meaning while also being interesting. I found that just going and doing it was the best way to come up with each.
When planning my triptych, I wanted to make sure that my three videos were tied together in some way. As we had explored humans relations with nature for a long time in class, and I wanted to make a more personal reflection on my own relations with nature. However when I tried to come up with one theme in my relation with nature, I realized that there in no black and white distinguishing factor in my relation. I wasn't one or the other, rather, my relations with nature varied from disconnect to desire and enthusiasm relative to my feelings. Each video reflected a different feeling I had about nature at different times (each video idea was developed on different days). When I finally filmed them I saw an interesting relation which was my theme of "Barriers, Bridges and Being".
First Barriers refers to our disconnection from nature. Our priorities lie in our technology and culture rather than the outside world and nature. We become blocked from it regardless if we want to or not.
Bridges refers to our connection to nature. While we may be distant from nature, our resources allow us to view and experience nature in other ways. Even if we couldn't visit a certain site, we can view and learn about it, and hence be more connected to it that before.
Being acknowledges the fact that we are born out of nature. Despite all our separation, we still live in the existence we call nature. Our home, the earth, is nature. The universe, our captors, are nature. Hence, we must also be nature.
While these ideas may be paradoxical, depending on feeling and perspective, all three relations can exist at the same time. I don't completely understand why, but that is my truth and my relation with nature.


U Sometimes we have priorities right? And I guess nature isn't one of them!?

As close to a beach as I'll ever be... But at least I can experience it in some way!
"If the universe is nature, then civilized or not, we are just a small part of that nature."
In the large scope of things, our earth is pretty small in the end.