EARTH: Art of a changing world (part 1)
This exhibition sets out to explore the challenges posed by climate change. Climate change is a concern of mine. I note that GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical company sponsor the show. Which in my mind amounts to an oxymoron….. “And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.” Tennyson‘s Idylls of the King.
I must therefore digress: A while ago whilst researching health for various family members including myself I came across the book ‘What Doctors don’t tell you – the truth about the dangers of modern medicine’ this is an informative read and will release you from the notion that your Doctor can make you well. In fact the statistics show that your Doctor is likely to contribute to your early demise. The book says ‘Every year, 1.17 million British people…..are put in hospital bed by a medical procedure gone wrong’. Also ‘did you know: Mammograms may be more likely to cause cancer than identify it & Cholesterol-lowering regimes can actually increase your chances of dying. I have also read examples of pharmecutical companies hiding research data. We know of course of drugs such as Thalidamide which tragically caused many birth defects. But lessor known facts are that antidepressents such as Prosac can actually cause self harming and suicidal thoughts. In fact many antidepressents/antipsychotics can cause the same side effects as they are supposed to treat – does this not make a mockery of the treatment of mental illness. What chance do we stand. Incidentally I read a water report that indicated that traces of all medications have been found in our ‘safe to drink’ tap water therefore we are all taking small doses of antipsychotics, which will no doubt dive us psychosis.
Currently a major concern is swine flu. An apparent hoax. There is major controversy about the benefits of vaccines, including the swine flu vaccine. Pregenant women have been advised to get it, but many women in America have reported miscarriage after it. Some patients have died, others have contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome. One of the major issues with vaccinations are the toxic substances that are put in it, one such is adjuvants, this makes the action of the vaccine stronger with a smaller dose. However adjuvants usually have side affects such as with the Anthrax vaccine causing golf war syndrome. You can read more about it here.
I would note also that I read in the paper recently that Glaxosmithkline have put in adjuvants into the British and Europe vaccines, but America are purchasing a vaccine without it beacause of grave health concerns.
Back to the show EARTH: Art of a changing world
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/gsk-con…
despite mixed reviews I’m really glad I went. I found the show inspiring and sublime. When seen like this we are reminded of metaphysics, that we have something spectacular here, a beautiful planet and we are without doubt polluting and destroying it. The artists here have all responded to Global warming in different ways.
The first piece to entrance me was an early piece of Anthony Gormley Amazonian field. I have seen it before and it is one of my preferred works of his, it consists of thousands of tiny figures made out of terracotta all placed next to each other filling an entire room of about 20m x 10m. It conjures up the miracle of life and at the same time problems of dense population.
The next work that stood out was by Ackroyd & Harvey, they made conceptual pieces Beuy’s Acorns and Polar Diamond. In the first piece of work they collected acorns from Joseph Beuy’s 1982 ecological project, planting 7000 oak trees in Kassel, and from the acorns grew new oak trees some of which they showed on the balcony. They are also researching how Beuy’s vision of ‘forest-like’ towns and cities may become a necessity in the face of climate change. Dr Roland Ennos has shown higher temperatures in urban areas known as the ‘urban heat island’ he said this can be dramatically reduced by a 10% increase of green space and trees in cities and towns. More trees will therefore help to counter global warming. In Polar Diamond they made a diamond from burning a bone, thus speeding up a natural process that takes millions of years in the same way mimicking how our industrial and mecanised society has sped up a process of global warming that might otherwise have occured naturally in millions of years.
