Introduction
Art, in its various forms – visual, literary, performative – plays an important role in ecocriticism. These forms represent different modes of thought expression, which can be at once beautiful as well as dystrophic; gentle persuasion and despotic. They can be as vigorous and urgent as a propagandas, a manisfesto, a summon; or they can be as meditative and empathetic as a love poem, a watercolour, an alpine symphony. All are capable of evoking ecological thoughts in an individual, or exhorting a sense of ecological duty in politicians and captains of society.
The concept of E-Cart is simple: It is an Ecological Collection of Art, comprising of subjects that I am passionate about.
The following chapters represent my own learning journey in the Anthropocene. The first is about a painting, a parody of humanism – an anthropocentric unitary self – who tries to look beyond the darkness that entraps him, to search for meanings in the wider cosmos. This will be followed by chapters on poetry, ceramics, sculptures, essays and music before a final reflection in the epilogue.