Comments on: Minkkinnen’s Body And The Natural Environment http://www.thethirdray.com/photography/minkkinnen/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Art, Sustainability, Environment - a blog by Joe Zammit-Lucia Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Joe Zammit-Lucia http://www.thethirdray.com/photography/minkkinnen/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Joe Zammit-Lucia Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:03:54 +0000 http://www.thethirdray.com/?p=140#comment-35 Hi Glenn - glad you like these images. I like the idea that as individuals we are insignificant compared to the natural world but in aggregate we will destroy it. Hi Glenn – glad you like these images. I like the idea that as individuals we are insignificant compared to the natural world but in aggregate we will destroy it.

]]> By: Glenn http://www.thethirdray.com/photography/minkkinnen/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Glenn Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:30:30 +0000 http://www.thethirdray.com/?p=140#comment-34 Fascinating set of images. I'm seeing a man struggle with his place in nature and struggling in some way to control the natural world around him. But he has to resort to visual/optical gimmicks to create this illusion of control. I'm left with feeling that humans are insignificant compared to the natural world. And there's a cold loneliness to these images (Finnish influence?). The final image of him crying out at the interface of the made and natural worlds - is he frustrated that he alone cannot control nature and bend it to his will? That he cannot hold back the tide? Perhaps individually we are insignificant, but maybe in aggregate we are highly destructive to the natural world? Contrasting these images with ones of the teeming masses of people at Times Square and hyper-urban development of Manhattan would be interesting. Fascinating set of images. I’m seeing a man struggle with his place in nature and struggling in some way to control the natural world around him. But he has to resort to visual/optical gimmicks to create this illusion of control. I’m left with feeling that humans are insignificant compared to the natural world. And there’s a cold loneliness to these images (Finnish influence?).

The final image of him crying out at the interface of the made and natural worlds – is he frustrated that he alone cannot control nature and bend it to his will? That he cannot hold back the tide?

Perhaps individually we are insignificant, but maybe in aggregate we are highly destructive to the natural world? Contrasting these images with ones of the teeming masses of people at Times Square and hyper-urban development of Manhattan would be interesting.

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