Exploring the living conversation between body, arts, and planet.
FEATURED WORKS
A selection of works exploring the kinship between body and Earth.
Marianne Bernhard’s multimedia works reveal the parallels between human anatomy and the natural world. Her art listens to the Earth’s voice within us.
BREATHE
BREATHE explores the kinship between lungs and trees – between the breath of the body and the breath of the Earth. Created in memory of her brother, the work bridges grief and ecological reverence, honoring how respiration connects all life.
MAMA QOTA
In their own language Aymaran men share how Lake Titcaca is a person, with veins and organs, and a spiritual source as well as ending ground. Environmental scientist Marina Morikawa also articulates this orientation to the lake, as well his courageous journey to successfully clean the most polluted portion of the Titicaca tributary using natural methods.
ALCHEMY
Alchemy explores psychological character type responses to climate change – masochistic anger, nourishment, and disconnection.
Marianne Bernhard - ARTIST STATEMENT
Nitrates in brackish wetland soil break down toxins into oxidized carbon.The method and function of a body’s liver is very similar. This holographic mirroring is so exciting to me.
An artistic resource to explore both anatomy and ecosystems is improvisational movement. To translate that investigation into color and shape on a 2D surface can be something like an oracle into the emotional subconscious. Lifting the 2D into articulated song, I find to be a satisfying spiritual weave of physical, emotional, and mental expression.