Etryscan
Fine Arts
Etryscan
Fine Arts
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JANUARY
Amazon,- Bark Sunrise
Description
The amazon edition grew out of a conscious personal effort to create awareness towards the substantial degradation of one of two of the world’s vital rainforests, Congo and the Amazon. Although the first palm trees existed on earth before the planet started to cool down 30 million years ago, thriving in warm wet conditions they became rare with the onset of the ice age.
Humanities eagerness to grow and develop means earth trees, we see today will also become rare due to adverse extreme deforestation and climate change.
The big difference is that present day trees are likely to disappear not in 100,000 years, but perhaps at the current rate within 1000 years or less. Although many of us will not be around to witness it, our great, great, great grandchildren will likely be living in an artificial atmosphere without trees.
The first of eight landscape illustrations expresses the extreme end of the horizon.
Sunrise Poem
“Sunrise portrays the remnants of a thousand-year-old tree, that is no longer green with foliage. No longer humid with a protruding trunk spreading its branches, out to absorb the rays.
No longer able to reach up to the bright blue sky amongst the birds and the bees.
No longer productive and part of the process allowing mother earth to breath and to exhale fresh air.
No longer existing.
No longer providing life to animals, insects and beings.
It is just a fragment of a past that used to fill the landscape with the abundance of life.
Earth is not our planet.
We do not own any part of this world. We are mere tourists bound to become strangers as we destroy the life that bore fruit to our existence”.
FEBRUARY
Amazon,- Bark Noon
Description
The amazon edition grew out of a conscious personal effort to create awareness towards the substantial degradation of one of two of the world’s vital rainforests, Congo and the Amazon. Although the first palm trees existed on earth before the planet started to cool down 30 million years ago, thriving in warm wet conditions they became rare with the onset of the ice age.
Humanities eagerness to grow and develop means earth trees, we see today will also become rare due to adverse extreme deforestation and climate change.
The big difference is that present day trees are likely to disappear not in 100,000 years, but perhaps at the current rate within 1000 years or less. Although many of us will not be around to witness it, our great, great, great grandchildren will likely be living in an artificial atmosphere without trees.
The second of eight landscape illustrations Noon traverses the horizon to take you to a broader spectrum.
Noon Poem
“Noon is a time when life had been remarkable.
Now sits a dry arid landscape. The wind blows seamlessly across the deserted rocks that
used to house mounds of wet shrubbery
Where is life now
Is it hiding in the midst of an isolated ravine
Where moisture sits
Hiding from the extreme
The extreme hot dry sandy
Air
Are there life amongst the dark shadows
The Shadows that protect
The shadows that keep
The shadows that could keep
Cool in the midday sun
Where are you now
Dry dusty landscape
It is a formidable place
No hope
Rainless deserted
Terrain
The River used to
Run through it
Full of life
Watery world
Of unknown marine
Giants roaming the
Cool depths
Of
The deep water
Caves hiding from
The torments of
Human
Activity
Where are you now
You have left us
To face an endless death
As you reach out
For
The
Stars
MARCH
Amazon,- Bark Dusk
Description
The amazon edition grew out of a conscious personal effort to create awareness towards the substantial degradation of one of two of the world’s vital rainforests, Congo and the Amazon. Although the first trees existed on earth before the planet started to cool down 30 million years ago, thriving in warm wet conditions, they became rare with the onset of the ice age.
Humanities eagerness to grow and develop means, earth trees we see today will become extinct, due to adverse extreme deforestation and climate change.
The big difference is that present day trees are likely to disappear not in 100,000 years, but perhaps at the current rate within 1000 years or less. Although many of us will not be around to witness it, our great, great, great grandchildren will likely be living in an artificial atmosphere without these trees.
The third of eight landscape illustrations Dusk reflects upon the bark, taking a closer look at the texture of living trees:
Dusk Poem
Dusk
Dusk relates to a period of time
A time when degrading weather conditions continue to diminish more and more of the common trees,
The atmosphere has
taken its toll on the layers of skin protecting
The virile trees from the elements
The toxic air has become unbreathable
The pollution and carbon dioxide absorbed by the biological
Make up of
A
Tree
is
irrelevant
A common tree sheds its skin
Making up the
the Bark
When
Trees
used to breath out fresh breathable
Air
We see them
Everyday
Yet not all of us Notice them
Trees have become
Furniture
Tress have become
Mere
Ornaments
To line
the streets
To be
Displayed in courtyards
Where paths
Tread
The trees reach out
creating shadows
Oak
Sandalwood
Sycamore
Harewood
Mahogany
The crotch for flame
In
Veneer
To make.
fancy furniture
As you walk along the embankment
the heat of the scorching sun cools
a warm fresh breeze brush you by
cooling the tiny little hairs on your warm skin
The Moisture evaporates after the hot
Afternoon Sun
The leaves rustle and the branches sway
The birds are singing
No more
The bees are buzzing
No more
They are irrelevant
Those trees
Are
No
More……!
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APRIL
Amazon,- Bark Sunset
Description
The amazon edition grew out of a conscious personal effort to create awareness towards the substantial degradation of one of two of the world’s vital rainforests, Congo and the Amazon. Although the first trees existed on earth before the planet started to cool down 30 million years ago, thriving in warm wet conditions, they became rare with the onset of the ice age.
Humanities eagerness to grow and develop means, earth trees we see today will become extinct, due to adverse extreme deforestation and climate change.
The big difference is that present day trees are likely to disappear not in 100,000 years, but perhaps at the current rate within 1000 years or less. Although many of us will not be around to witness it, our great, great, great grandchildren will likely be living in an artificial atmosphere without these trees.
The fourth of eight landscape illustrations, Sunset highlights a golden terrain after a long day of intense heat across a barren landscape:
Sunset Poem
Sunset
Several mounds appear vividly along the tracks overlooking
the barren landscape
A topography from above sets a scene
Long dark shadows appear from the mounds cooling
parts of the dusty ground
Two faint parallel horizontal line indicate a trace of what could have been a man made
road forgotten
A short time ago an evergreen wet forest housed wild life
Vast array of vegetation and all manner of living creatures
The sounds and smells that provided habituation, food and medicine
to all living creatures
Seasonal rain falls and storms
passing by to inflict a deluge of fresh water upon the
forest canopies
Canopies that protected the living forest from the intense rays of the afternoon sun
A dry sandy desolate golden arid landscape now sits
Is there still life in this forgotten land
Deep below in the dark shadows
Wet cool world marshy soggy surface filled with
the accumulation of fallen leaves and foliage over Melania’s
Create gasses
The lungs of mother earth allow for life to continue
To Exist
A premature death to an atmospheric world thinning
the breathable air now polluted by the industrial engines of humanity
Inflicting an irreversible scar upon a gift
to the mass of the living
Desolation lingers as the stranger’s
bail to survive another day.
MAY
Amazon,- Bark SunDown
Description
The amazon edition grew out of a conscious personal effort to create awareness towards the substantial degradation of one of two of the world’s vital rainforests, Congo and the Amazon. Although the first trees existed on earth before the planet started to cool down 30 million years ago, thriving in warm wet conditions, they became rare with the onset of the ice age.
Humanities eagerness to grow and develop means, earth trees we see today will become extinct, due to adverse extreme deforestation and climate change.
The big difference is that present day trees are likely to disappear not in 100,000 years, but perhaps at the current rate within 1000 years or less. Although many of us will not be around to witness it, our great, great, great grandchildren will likely be living in an artificial atmosphere without these trees.
The fifth of eight landscape illustrations, Sundown combines a moon like terrain with a textured surface in monochrome akin to the skin of a mature tree, a closer look:
SunDown Poem
Sundown
Lumber sits awaiting transportation
Why am I not me
Why have I been Feld
Where are they taking me
A temporary cabin formed from a metal cargo containerActivity
Where are you now
You have left us
To face an endless death
As you reach out
For
The
Stars
storage and kitchen
Future setting for a life style of another world to come
Limited in the confines of a pressurised atmosphere
A gymnasium
A common room
A number of swimming pools
Constrained in close
proximity
Where are we now
The cabin still sits
A remnant of a past has become
A furniture of the outdoors
A derelict future
A sand ridden landscape
moisture less
life less
insignificant
motionless
Am I going to Europe
Am I heading for South East Asia
Or
Will I be turned into furniture in North America
Why do developed countries still
demand rare trees
Is it for luxurious living
Some day they will have
No choice
We will no longer be around
I lived for over five hundred years
Part of me
is in an office of a law firm
Or is it a banking corporation
Maybe both
There are many of me
scattered all over the world
I was born of the forest
I died quickly
My limbs torn away
My insides bled
Cut to pieces
Hundreds of pieces
I am no longer
Somebody
I am nobody
A nameless piece of furniture
forgotten
I miss the vibrations of the forest
among others like me
Full of Life I felt
birds, insects, four legged beings
Roaming freely
JUNE
Amazon,- Bark Nightfall
Description
The amazon edition grew out of a conscious personal effort to create awareness towards the substantial degradation of one of two of the world’s vital rainforests, Congo and the Amazon. Although the first trees existed on earth before the planet started to cool down 30 million years ago, thriving in warm wet conditions, they became rare with the onset of the ice age.
Humanities eagerness to grow and develop means, earth trees we see today will become extinct, due to adverse extreme deforestation and climate change. The big difference is that present day trees are likely to disappear not in 100,000 years, but perhaps at the current rate within 1000 years or less. Although many of us will not be around to witness it, our great, great, great grandchildren will likely be living in an artificial atmosphere without these trees.
The Sixth of eight landscape illustrations, Nightfall takes a dream like state exposing the surface of a dark and gloomy terrain:
Nightfall Poem
A
Crossroad
A
Metaphor
The choices we have made
Why
Are we
Here
It is now an underground world
Tunnels upon tunnels
Like ants and termites
We have relegated ourselves to confined living
Prisoners of our own demise
Arrogant
Ignorant
Selfish
Human
Mentality
Where do we go now
Do we carry on
Pilfering from natures bountiful store
The wealth of material resources
The abundance of natural minerals
To continue to dig deeper into the crevasse
To wage wars upon each other
with
self-destructive
Behaviours
The land we sit on has never been ours
It belongs to Nature
We should have been Guardians of
The bountiful life
All Around
Our species could Not
Choose to cultivate Goodness
Instead
Took upon the primitive habit of
killing
Where there are life threats
What do humans do
Kill
The lands unnatural demise devasted
by the illusion of self-worth
The fragmented delusions of
Ethnicity
We reach out
into the storehouse of
Self-preservation
The cracks are proving their worth
The night lingers
The shadows follow
The moon keeps a close
Eye
Hoping to find those Dreamers who
Can wake up to habits of
Conservation…
All rights reserved. No part of the art works or literature may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photography, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holder (E.F.A is trading as Avygnon Ltd).
JULY
Amazon,- Bark Full Moon
Description
The amazon edition grew out of a conscious personal effort to create awareness towards the substantial degradation of one of two of the world’s vital rainforests, Congo and the Amazon. Although the first trees existed on earth before the planet started to cool down 30 million years ago, thriving in warm wet conditions, they became rare with the onset of the ice age.
Humanities eagerness to grow and develop means, earth trees we see today will become extinct, due to adverse extreme deforestation and climate change.
The big difference is that present day trees are likely to disappear not in 100,000 years, but perhaps at the current rate within 1000 years or less. Although many of us will not be around to witness it, our great, great, great grandchildren will likely be living in an artificial atmosphere without these trees.
The Seventh of eight landscape illustrations, Full moon is the realisation of living the nightmares of past mistakes, it is too late:
Full Moon Poem
Reality
Hits
Like
A
hundred
Thunderbolts
Storms
The
Sounds
Of
Raging energetic storms
Endless
Lightnings striking
Again
And
Again
The noise
The Electricity
In
The Air so
Potent
You can
Smell
The searing
Electrical
Storms
Burn through
The Moisten Air
You wake upon the familiar
Humming
The
Sound of ventilation
As you verbally activate
Your
Artificial
Light
Your eyes adjust to the white ambient florescence
You were born
In a
Confined environment
Of a metallic artificial
World
You have no
Experiences of
A
Life with
The natural
State of being
No wild
Animals
Birds
Or
Insects
You
Look out
Your
Window
You
See
A
Faint grey looking
Planet
An
Angry looking
Planet
With dark grey
Whirling white motions
Flashes of
Light strike
The once blue
Planet is raging for
Over
Seven hundred
Years
Life less
Constant
Storms
Electrical
Storms
In a
Gray World
AUGUST
Amazon,- Bark Twilight Dreams
Description
The amazon edition grew out of a conscious personal effort to create awareness towards the substantial degradation of one of two of the world’s vital rainforests, Congo and the Amazon. Although the first trees existed on earth before the planet started to cool down 30 million years ago, thriving in warm wet conditions, they became rare with the onset of the ice age.
Humanities eagerness to grow and develop means, earth trees we see today will become extinct, due to adverse extreme deforestation and climate change.
The big difference is that present day trees are likely to disappear not in 100,000 years, but perhaps at the current rate within 1000 years or less. Although many of us will not be around to witness it, our great, great, great grandchildren will likely be living in an artificial atmosphere without these trees.
The last of eight landscape illustrations, Twilight Dreams reinforces all of the seven scenes of recognition in a state of incredulity from deep sleep, woken:
Twilight Dreams Poem
Realisation
Knocks
Knocks
And it
Keeps on
Knocking
Constant knocking
Louder
With intensity
becoming more
And more
Repetitive
Eventually a Cascade of events
Continue
To crash through
Devastating
Shattering
Bursting
generating invisible
irregular
Holes smashing
over the misapprehension
Of humanity
When did it happen
Why did we allow this
Barren
Barren foolish
Delusion to persist
The
Destructive
Familiar
behaviour continues
To persevere
Still ignoring
The
signs of natures
ferocity
I am
Made of clay
Layers upon layers
of clay
Moulded through Melania
Imperfect form
Slowly
Gradually the moisture
Is sucked out of me
Cracks getting
Bigger
More frequent
Spreading like a plague
Why are you not
Listening
Why can’t you here
the cries of anguish
repetitive distress
I
Can no longer
Carry you
Through this foolish
Insensibility
The only way
You can succeed
Is to stop
Competing
but in its place
ALL MUST
Work
Together In
PEACE and HARMONY
SEPTEMBER
Threads Of Life – Valley
Description
Coming Soon
TBC Poem
Coming Soon
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OCTOBER
Threads Of Life – Contour
Description
COMING SOON
Poem
COMING SOON
NOVEMBER
Threads Of Life – Water
Description
COMING SOON
Poem
COMING SOON
DECEMBER
Threads Of Life – Red Planet (Mars)
Description
COMING SOON
Poem
COMING SOON
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Frame Size: 1540 mm x 1020 mm Printed artwork : 1270 mm x 914mm Internal mount (visible print area): 1240 mm x 740 mm
About Etryscan
BIO
Etryscan lives and works between, France, Spain and the UK. His work is geared towards environmental awareness and the human connection with nature. He has travelled and worked in outdoor activity centres in England, France and Spain for many years. His most recent work combines poetry, inspired microscopic images and sculptural pieces to encompass the cycle of life, by using clay as his primary medium.
Working outdoors in extreme weather; in sports’ activities has provided him with a close connection and appreciation for the beauty of the wild natural environment. His work seeks to reveal parts of life that has not been experienced by many inner-city youngsters or even adults in our modern age; disconnected from nature’s bountiful wisdom; living in skyscrapers and city living. Etryscan’s art has gravitated from using traditional methods of image-making, such as oil painting, to a more active and gestural approach; one which pays homage to the natural environment.
The works seeks to encompass an inherently beneficial approach for the conservation of our natural environment. Nature to him is truly more important than just living in a bubble of concrete worlds, as he wants to explore the limits of art and allow the connected experience he has with nature; to flow and be part of life for others to feel and somehow become a part of; hopefully inspiring others to go out there to chase and experience the planets wonders for themselves.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The practice is geared towards ecological awareness, conservation and humanity’s connection with the natural world including its wild life. Working with digital 3D printing, laser manipulation, collage, ceramics and salvaging objects; such as prefabricated wood, tiles, paper and metal. To utilise organic materials as a primary source; using clay, saw dust, charcoal, graphite, pigments and debris.
The overall aim is to explore the limits of art allowing for more connected experiences with the materials born of the natural environment. These experiences are meant to flow and become part of life for others to feel, as a springboard to inspire and explore natures wonders. To convey to the viewer the benefits of healthy living, self-awareness, and conscious decision making. To activate within a gestural approach by participation, using recycled materials as a social act, and engaging through the use of old furniture, as a reflection of the conditions of our environment. Where creative writing provides inspiration, a series of works link elements of poetry to sculptures and insallations, serving as a source of narrative and context. Past projects were based on, the ancient language of symbols, past and future human forms of communication.
The natural forms that come from biological molecular structures, including DNA information to genomes behaviours in relation to photons, and cell structure formations in relation to botany. The “Threads of life” series explores the fragments of biological and natural matter through the cycles of time.
Observing the journey of the material wealth from the living and the dormant past. The rich language of historic writing in clay such as the Rosetta Stone tablet form a contextual connection through poetry.
The story is told of the journey matter takes from the living state to the dormant world, where materials of the past await to be reborn, to journey again into the living for the pursuit of survival.
The clay tablets resemble the old writing tablets inscribed by hand using cuneiform to record agricultural supplies or to count the number of sacks of wheat consumed to feed the hundreds of workers who built the great pyramid. Today these very tablets are used by the masses as a form of communication, entertainment, and connectivity through the mobile phone. It has also become an essential sophisticated device that we rely upon on a daily basis. Fascinating microscopic 2D images play a leading role in the comedy of life; for inspirations to create three dimensional representations.
“The Poetic Language written in threads, reveal the breath of words in singular form, encapsulated tension, word by word un-explored vision, suspended for moments at a time a…surpise”
By using clay to make sculptures that mimic the images likeness; to be portrayed to the macro world, these dormant tactile forms show a primitive arrangement of landscapes before the dawn of life. Pigments are used to add colour and natural glue to bond moist earth to a base which are made of wood, paper, or netting.
The macro sculptures are taken into a photographic environment where lighting and mood create pictorial worlds and landscapes that could possibly have existed millenia’s ago or even worlds that could even exist outside of our solar system. The journey takes us through time via water, air, heat and the material wealth of earth which holds all these elements together to form our atmospheric landscape. To make versatile state of earth that which is clay is moulded into shape from an old mobile phone that had lost its functioning life to be reborn in moulds of plaster. The three plaster tablet moulds were formed, air dried and then pre-fired to its now fragile state; if dropped at a great height they would shatter to pieces.
Collaborating with peers to individually write a poem in their own handwriting and connecting each tablet to each individual person and their unique personal handwriting style they scribe in graphite pencil. The story continues with the poetic words of the: “Threads of Life” written on papyrus paper, transported to our present technological environment. The utilisation of a mechanical proficient robotic burner. A programmed laser cutter inscribed into the papyrus by firing a laser through the ancient form of recording and revealing the poetic words to be read through both sides of an ancient manuscript. The papyrus is hung from the ceiling with each one woven, using threads signifying life connecting every piece, serving as a passage for time to travel through the heavens down to the ground meeting the earth below.
Thriving and evolving via evolution are the primitive more complex varieties that include the human genome. Where there is life, there are dormant matters and the combination of both allows the living to thrive from sustainable resources, fed by the minerals and resources of past cycles. The waiting period of the dry state is then followed with the return of the sustaining liquid force carried by the element of water. This sustaining water could possibly be the thread that ties all life together allowing matter to actively pursue the state of continues infinite activity.