EcoSelf. All Human
Act I - I forgot how many apples are in the garden.
When the short days of autumn trigger our senses to project the color that we feel suitable, then the warm interaction appears.
This world of concrete objects begins to confess an affiliation to its surroundings. Through sensing, action, and comprehension. We begin to share joy, indifference, greed or happiness, just for this presence we are all in.
This is a story of us and amiable mythic memories that stroke edges of time, she and he on the Earth. Once we were attuned to ourselves and the surroundings, aware that a center includes us all. Nowadays we place ourselves in the center of it all.
Act II - Grapes and melons are for granted, but sweet to taste
We stay always at the crossroad of time and space because from the center we may shape dimensions as we desire. Adaptation to the environment means not co-existence, but improvement of conditions and a constant search for alternatives that could provide a better existence.
Such a delusion marks an entire existence and enslaves the soul to a pathetic opulent world. Grapes and melons are for granted, but sweet to taste.
Act III - A farewell to me, myself and I
How can we detach from this egoistic view?
We have been taught to see each other through traits of gender and culture, yet we are birthed onto this Earth as merely humans, breathing more or less the same air, feeding from the same resources that nature has to offer. Love has been mistaken for selfishness.
The genuine love should be the love of a widened and deepened self through identification with the beings and non-beings around to grow compassion and a deeper understanding of one’s self.
An ecoself perspective, as Norwegian philosopher, Arne Naess*, puts it. Through the process of self-actualization, one transcends the notions of the individuated "egoic" self and arrives at a position of an ecological self. Environmentally responsible behavior is a form of altruism, a "doing good for the other". Let our identity be far from self-existence. We belong to a larger theatre.
*Arne Dekke Eide Næss (1912 – 2009) was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "deep ecology", an environmental philosophy that promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, and the restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.
Act IV - A welcome to we and the other beings
Inherent potentialities are realized in togetherness, considering each being as an evergoing embracement of nature. Each being and non-being has the right to blossom inside the unity of this beautiful act we call living.
One will widen his vision by gradually renouncing to stress out his issues as the only ones that matter. One will strengthen his healthy perspective by reconsidering nature as a part of his existence and not a theatrical recuzite that can be changed depending on a caprice. We all will embrace real freedom when the doors of the self-loving prison crumble. By choosing side with these thoughts, we make a choice for the others. Us is futile. Others are utile.
EcoSelf. All Human
Project team:
Photography & Concept | Florin Ghenade
Muses | Georgiana Saraev
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Cristian Bala
MUA & Hairstylist | Ioana Roman
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Designs & Styling | CraXittude by Georgiana Stegaru