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This essay is divided in two sections: a theoretical reflection on the premises and advantages of painting in anthropological research, and a practical experiment. The first section offers a proposal for the use of painting within anthropological outcomes as an important tool for representing the feelings of the researcher and of the people observed, as well as mediating between their perspectives. Additionally, the proposed visual essay, entitled ‘City and Nature’ is a visual exploration of human life within the modern globalised world, focusing on nature and consumerism through dark surreal images. The exploration of the possibilities of expression offered by artistic practice can be a great way to explore the sphere of perception and interpretation, that deeper world of meanings and understandings, that is the real heart of anthropology.
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We wait in the queue to take ownership of those essential things that we have selected from the shelves. Personifying our possessions, in our minds we have always owned them. This is our entitlement. There were countless selections, each identically equal to the others in their anonymity. Objects made and conceived by others, not of our own hands, not of our sweat, beyond our knowledge.
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Meat and clothing - sources unknown. Ample car-like trolleys discourage scrutiny. Swift and convenient - the perfect system of consumerism ignores its imperfection. Far from the sight lies forgotten refuse. The timeless struggle of the waves washes thoughts away. Beyond the rubbish, the sea.
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The sacrifice of the Earth brings the fall of humankind. The enormous sacrifice has depleted the little source. Outside from the water, a fish too big has overturned the hunters into its pond.
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In a red desert a new business is born: You can replace that blue head, empty space of a forgotten consciousness, with the comfortable design of a new thinking head, factory style, safety and certainty of never being too different, illusion of being one.
