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Thus, I have come to realize my own appreciation for nature has come from the culture of which I belong, because all we think and perceive, or think we know, is constructed and mediated through signs – or language. In doing so we may come to a better realization of what it means to be human at this present time.
Jason Walker
1973 Born Pocatello, Idaho
EDUCATION
1996 BFA Utah State University, Logan, Utah
1999 MFA Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2001-2003Long Term Residency, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana
2010 Artist in Residence, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China
2010Artist in Residence, A.I.R.
It creates two very separate worlds – the human made world and the non-human made world. He spent two years as an artist in residence at The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. If typed into a google search, nature is defined as “the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations”.
What image is conceived with the word? As my metric of travel was an automobile up to that point in my life, time and space became farther and longer with a bicycle as my new tool of measurement for travel. Speaking of wilderness William Cronon wrote, “For Americans wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilization, that all too human disease, has not fully infected the earth.
For example, long ago I decided to ride my bike from Vancouver, Canada down the U.S. coast with a sharp left turn in Oregon leading back to southeast Idaho where I grew up. He received a BFA from Utah State University and a MFA from Penn State University. Ultimately, ideas of nature and/or wilderness are human constructs ever changing through human cultures at different moments in history.
Yet, what is nature exactly? It creates two very separate worlds – the human made world and the non-human made world. It is an island in the polluted sea of urban-industrial modernity, the one place we can turn for escape from our own too-muchness.”
Paradoxically, from our ‘own too-muchness’ our ideas of wilderness and nature are conceived. It alters the structure of our interests, it alters the structure of our symbols, and it alters the structure of our community.
Ultimately, ideas of nature and/or wilderness are human constructs ever changing through human cultures at different moments in history. Sixty miles was an all day effort instead of an hour on the highway in a motorized vehicle. Just as the bicycle changed my relationship to time and space, human beings will perceive the world differently according to the tool they are using, and behind every technological creation lie unintended consequences and underlying messages that forever change our perceptions, social interactions and our relationship to each other and nature.
The way we perceive nature speaks volumes about the way we perceive ourselves and what it means to be human at this precise moment in history.
The ride took one month. Just as the bicycle changed my relationship to time and space, human beings will perceive the world differently according to the tool they are using, and behind every technological creation lie unintended consequences and underlying messages that forever change our perceptions, social interactions and our relationship to each other and nature.
The way we perceive nature speaks volumes about the way we perceive ourselves and what it means to be human at this precise moment in history.
As my metric of travel was an automobile up to that point in my life, time and space became farther and longer with a bicycle as my new tool of measurement for travel.