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\nDavid Strauss
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\nWorks on the relationship between human beings and nature \u2014
\non responsibility, alienation, consumption, guilt,
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\nHuman Emotions
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\nPaintings on humanity confronted with a self-inflicted crisis
\nof meaning, environment, and responsibility.\n<\/p>\n


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\nHuman Emotions II
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\nPaintings on morality, justification, loss,
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\nA World in Peril
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\nPaintings on value, existence,
\nand the destruction of living beings.\n<\/p>\n


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\nA World in Peril II
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\nPaintings on humanity between denial,
\nself-destruction, and responsibility.\n<\/p>\n


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\nMy work explores the relationship between human beings and nature \u2014
\nand the responsibility that arises from it.\n<\/p>\n


\nHuman beings are not separate from the world they inhabit.
\nEvery living being is life itself \u2014
\nan expression of the same being
\nwhich we, too, are.\n<\/p>\n


\nAnd yet we no longer see the world
\nas something to which we belong,
\nbut increasingly as a standing reserve \u2014
\nsomething existing merely to be used,
\nordered, and consumed.\n<\/p>\n


\nMy work is an attempt
\nto make this visible.
\nNot as moral instruction.
\nNot as decoration.\n<\/p>\n


\nBut as remembrance.
\nFor true art is never mere ornament.
\nArt without meaning, without message,
\nis mere decoration, and seizes to be art.\n<\/p>\n


\nAt its highest,
\nart opens a new way of seeing \u2014
\nrevealing dimensions of being
\nthat otherwise remain concealed.\n<\/p>\n


\nThat is why I write.
\nThat is why I paint.\n<\/p>\n


\nNot to depict scenery.
\nNot to entertain.
\nNot to create decoration.\n<\/p>\n


\nBut to make true that life itself \u2014
\nnon-human life just like ours –
\nhas value on its own,
\neven if our age has largely forgotten it.\n<\/p>\n


\nMany speak today of responsibility
\nwhile continuing to participate
\nin destruction.\n<\/p>\n


\nBut responsibility
\nthat does not manifest in one\u2019s own life
\nis no responsibility at all.\n<\/p>\n


\nIf knowledge has no consequences for action,
\nthen we never truly wished to understand.\n<\/p>\n


\nI therefore try
\nto live what I speak about \u2014
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\nas remains possible within this world.\n<\/p>\n


\nWe are all only life.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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\nPainting
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\nComplete archive of paintings,
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\nOn the Environmental Crisis
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\nTexts and visual essays
\non environmental destruction,
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