VIDEO
Created by Suzanne Biniahan
A reflection on Henry David Thoreau’s lecture/book “Walking”, 1851.
Here I walk and reflect in the idea of transcendentalism particularly in the Enlightenment Period and the relationship between man and nature and our place in society. Here I explore the playground of nature around me and hear the sounds, textures, temperatures and the openness of my surroundings. I am not quite in the wilderness but at a small park near my home, it is a place where self reflection and understanding nature as a spiritual experience is understood. Side by side clips demonstrate the marginal worlds of animals, places, humans and technology.
“ Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man...”