VISUAL ARTIST EVA KURSETH - I AM NATURE

Anthropocene is a catalogue that brings together several series, each approaching in different ways how human activity intervenes in and reshapes the processes of the natural world. The works arise from an awareness that what once could return to soil, water, and air without a trace now lingers—settling as deposits in sediments, groundwater, and geological layers. Man-made materials and structures do not fully dissolve; they persist as quiet, enduring presences within what we still call nature. The project unfolds from a condition in which the boundary between nature and culture can no longer be clearly drawn. Water, soil, and the slow movements of ecological time carry with them what has been introduced. It does not simply disappear, but enters into new formations, new strata, new continuities. At a certain point, this can no longer be understood as influence alone, but as a lasting state—irreversible, and inseparable from what is. Across the catalogue, this condition is explored through a visual language that moves between photography and digitally mediated painterly expressions, grounded in images from regulated waters and coastal landscapes. The works trace shifts, interventions, and thresholds—moments where the original is altered, thinned out, or absorbed into the constructed, until distinctions begin to dissolve. Toward the end of the catalogue, another space opens. Through the layering and interweaving of multiple images, a quieter and more contemplative dimension emerges. Here, attention shifts from trace and intervention toward presence and relation. In the age of the Anthropocene, where the human imprint is inescapable, it becomes increasingly vital to attune to what may still be experienced as sacred within nature. These final works do not attempt to restore a lost separation, but rather to evoke another mode of perception—an awareness of nature as something we remain part of, and which holds a value beyond what we impose upon it. The catalogue as a whole invites reflection on this dual condition: nature as shaped by human action, and at the same time as a bearer of something elemental, sensory, and perhaps still sacred.