SYMBIOSIS

Emmanuel Folorunso, Nigeria

Symbiosis tries to reimagine our relationship with nature and earth as a whole.
From where did our conceptions of this relationship come?
Have we ever thought to question these ideas that we currently hold?
At a time when the rallying call for sustainibility is beginning to recieve more attention in a bid to reverse the damages we‘ve done to our only home, symbiosis aims to illustrate our inseparability from nature.
We are not separate from nature, neither are we at the apex of nature, we are part of an intricate and complex organism. Mans idea of exising separately and independently of nature is merely an illusion perpetuated by our system of education, that disconnects us from the material world at a very young age.
What we really are, is a feature of consciousness on this planet, we exist as features of an intelligent planet that peoples the same way an apple tree apples.
So our relationship with this planet based on a notion of imparting our dominance on it, is merely one that would hurt us in the long run as this intelligent ecosystem could get rid of us in a bid to protect itself and would go on just fine.

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