It’s Really just a Love Story (the Paper)

Authors

• Angela E. Marsh

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.119472

Abstract

Angela E. Marsh explores her art project entitled It’s really just a love story as an act of care, both on the intimate and societal level, addressing human as well as ecological restauration needs, where intersections between fields of study and diverse ways of knowing and experiencing are explored. Seeing the art project as a possible interface for processing our current, troubling realities in the Anthropocene, our aesthetic experiences becomes active agents in re-establishing and re-defining our kinships with nature, inspiring us to slow down to find out what we can learn from the resilience of our wild plant kin.
Marsh argues for the need to destabilize the status-quo management of our natural spaces and makes the case for new, de-hierarchized and de-colonized,
interspecies relationships. The art project is understood as a creator of experience and dialogue, understanding new reciprocal relationships of care between
human and plant species, and evoking the breakdown of the Cartesian separation of culture-nature binary to allow the emergence of holistic, systems-based
conceptions of our place in the world.