Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings, –
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows.
– Henry David Thoreau ‘Walden: or, Life in the Woods’ (1854)
As an inter-disciplinary artist, working in a variety of mediums I endeavour to explore the poetic complexity of our symbiosis with places, environments and ecologies. Very often my work addresses, abstractly, what might be commonly perceived and all too often misinterpreted, as an anthropocentric distinction between the ‘natural’ (organic) and the ‘human-made’ (synthetic). My independent curatorial practice in the field of ‘arts and ecology’ is an integral extension and evolution of his artistic activity. An openness to inter-disciplinarity, collaboration and experimentation are at the heart of my approach. www.james-brady.blogspot.com
