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"Urban Nature" (i.imgur.com)

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[–]Vercify[S] 11 points12 points ago

The artist is Naoko Ito.

[–]weaselfunk 11 points12 points ago

Ooh I have a pic like that from an installment from 2011...http://www.imgur.com/eDqOf.png

[–]TacticalBacon00 0 points1 point ago

now with 10% more instagram filters

[–]Space-Dementia 4 points5 points ago

Another

[–]Idontlikejohn 3 points4 points ago

Reminds me of Wallace Stevens' poem Anecdote of the Jar:

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion every where. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.

[–]Jontron 0 points1 point ago

That's an odd poem.

"It made the slovenly wilderness surround that hill"

What does that mean? How does the jar change what the wilderness does?

"of a port in air"

I have no idea what that could mean.

I think I like it though.

[–]bnayr 6 points7 points ago

What's so urban about a glass jar?

[–]Jontron 5 points6 points ago

I could be wrong, but I'm looking at it like how bits of nature are distributed throughout urban society in packages. Food comes in jars, flowers come in cellophane, and so on. Nature that is brought into urban settings is designed to fit into the convenience of efficient human life.

This piece of art is a deconstruction of that, I think. It's taking all of these separate pieces to re-form a whole structure of nature, reminding us that the nature we experience during urban life is just a piece of something greater.

[–]didntVoteObama 0 points1 point ago

opposed to nature? everything.

[–]driftwoodsound -2 points-1 points ago

Glass can be formed naturally. Look up 'Desert Glass'.

[–]notsponsored 2 points3 points ago

Tell me what to look up for a glass jar with a metal cap formed naturally.

[–]gorgapor 2 points3 points ago

For some reason, this makes me incredibly sad.

[–]Power_Leap 0 points1 point ago

I agree... A form of nature with the ability to turn the rays of the sun into energy and a near-infinite potential to grow, cut up and stored in pieces into sterile glass jars, simultaneously separated from the environment that both nourishes and depends on it, as well as itself.

Broken, removed from it's environment, displayed like a trophy.

[–]sketchbookmoments 0 points1 point ago

It should be plastic containers for the real "urban" effect.

[–]throw_a_weigh11 0 points1 point ago

I saw this piece in Raleigh on a First Friday! I thought it was really cool.

[–]skt03 0 points1 point ago

Looks like someone just won the Hipster Olympics, pickling division.

[–]sqrlaway 2 points3 points ago

I really hope this is a Chevelle reference.

[–]giddyjigga 1 point2 points ago

Is the message supposed to be about how in cities, nature can thrive so long as it lives in the confines defined by man?

[–]Jontron 0 points1 point ago

That's sort of what I'm getting. But I see it as more of a reminder that the bits of nature that we see and experience in cities is just a part of something much greater.

[–]poop_symphony 0 points1 point ago

They should call this shit "Na-jar".

[–]elezen88 0 points1 point ago

i don't really get the "urban" part

[–]Swiftyz 1 point2 points ago

This kills the tree...

[–]Zap-Brannigan 0 points1 point ago

10/10 would see for the first time again

[–]Zoso525 0 points1 point ago

Damn nature, you crazy.

[–]mellowmonk 0 points1 point ago

That's a clever idea.

[–]iamtew 0 points1 point ago

Silly reposter.. Delete your account please.

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[–]b3tzy -2 points-1 points ago

The message is fairly trite, but the execution is well done.

[–]concreteteeth 1 point2 points ago

I'm pretty sure using the phrase "fairly trite" to describe anything thing art these days is what is "fairly trite"?

[–]strayce 0 points1 point ago

What a jarring contrast.

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