JONATHAN JIMENEZ AKA JONK
Naturalia: Chronicle of Contemporary Ruins

This series asks the fundamental question of that of the place of Man on Earth and his relationship with Nature. Far from being pessimistic, and at a time when Man’s domination of Nature has never been so extreme, it aims to wake our consciousness.
Man builds, Man abandons. Every time for his own peculiar reasons. Nature does not care about those reasons. One thing is for sure, when Man leaves, She comes back and takes back everything.
In his poem Eternity of Nature, brevity of Man, Alphonse de Lamartine writes “Triumph, immortal Nature! / Whose hand full of days / Lends unlimited strengths / Times that always rise again!” Naturalia tells the story of the progression of Nature, from the infiltration in abandoned places, through the moment where She grows inside them, until their collapse. Burial comes next along with the disappearance of all traces of Man.
When Nature and Time will have taken back what Man abandons, what will be left of our civilization?

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