Considering that we are faced with a situation where we need to grow new ideas and a new culture, I thought the juxtaposition of these two portraits was relatively poignant. The first as a thought for where we are headed if we don't change our behaviors. The second as a reminder that our culture and values are formed and communicated by us. The way we talk, the language we use to describe the world and our relationship to the environment shapes our actions. The idea of aGROWculture is that we need to create a new way of thinking, to grow a new culture that allows us to live more sustainably. All this starts with building new discourses, with talking about new things and ideas and talking about old ideas differently.
Photo credit to Cheng - Chang Wu (top) and Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir (bottom), whose work is a part of an the group Artists Wanted's NYC based show Self: Expressed (at Open House Gallery). Click here to see a brief video of the making of Wu's portrait.
