Tomorrow we will analyse the actual food and agriculture industry, i’m sure quite different opinions and points of view will be expressed by all the participants. EXITING!

Pretransitie groep voeding-landbouw.

where will it grow,

will the farmer’s family live on the income,

will it grow in healthy, natural soil,

will it grow in heated, subventioned greenhouses,

will it grow faster through hormones or chemical additives,

will you buy locally,

will farmers be able to decide the price,

will biodiversity increase,

will you grow salad and tomatoes on your window,

will we go foraging with friends to pick your meals in the city,

on wasted land

in parks

in community gardens

make a heart warming chestnut soup in winter

a cleansing and invogarating nettle soup in spring,

living off our local landscape.

will the city hall make its roof greener,

a lung

with a heart

will we move together towards more generosity?

ANY IDEAS YOU MIGHT HAVE

SHOUT, I’LL BE YOUR VOICE IN THE CHANGE TOWARDS A BRIGHTER 2050

love, nathalie

http://www.thenewfoodfrontier.be/

some screen shots:

The summer went by bringing it’s usual flowering energy, and though it rained more than anything else, I celebrated it with delight.

Then, on mother’s day, i broke my big toe, and had to cancel a trip to Plymouth to prepare the Platform P exhibition. And a trip to Venice.

Head up, i decided to take advantage of this, and deepen my research on perspective. About ten years ago i developed a way of drawing that would connect people with their surroundings. With their environment. I wanted to make clear clear through my images that i distanced myself from western perspective. Western point of view. Where the viewer is in the center. Of his universe. Of his truth.

I prefered to generate a continuous line that would connect the object (be it a person or not) with its environment. By observing something we change it. By mere observation! This duality is what interests me. This interrelatedness is absolutely amazing. Quantum physics go far in their research on this theme.

Well for years I was trying to take these drawings further. To find what could be the relation between drawing and painting, and with time. Convinced i shooted hours of footage from advancing trains, cars, walking. I would made images based on this perpetual movement our lives are filled with.

On the other hand i have this all life fascination for oriental philosophy, ottoman miniatures, persian drawings, prerafaelite paintings, egyptian perspective and ortodox iconography. And though i know they are very different, i can’t help to store them all in the same drawer.

With all this information, a sea of time and a broken toe that withdrew me magically from all household tasks, i started to make a drawing of a city i’d never visited. I went through blogs, stories, youtube and touristic movies to end up looking at all these places in google maps. Slowly i started to build up the drawing.

I’ve just shown it in Platform P. Plymouth, you were great! Thanks for your enthousiasm and love. See you soon.

Food is about sharing.
To feel connected with all the people involved in having your plate filled with gorgeous food.
The person who harvested the seeds, the farmer who sow it, the one theta kept the land clean and took care of the plants, harvested them. Someone drove the tractor to the auction, the local market or the cooperative. How did it travel to this place, who packed it, washed it? Was it produced locally, did it travel by plane, by train? And who wrote down the delicious recipes? Who prepared, served this great dish and who will clean my plate?

In short, whom are you thinking of, who do you associate with this?
It can be the local chickenfarmer, the captain of the cargo, the cashier of your favorite shop, The “mamma” who shares her best pasta recipe with the world, your very own mother, the assistant of the farmer in africa who weeded the land by hand every day. And whose name you don’t know.

Remember this name, or invent on if you don’t know it.

On monday the 6th of June people wrote their chosen name on the window.
Then I made a window painting with it.
And on thursday 8th of July we send sunflower seeds through the air.

TOGETHERNESS is a project for vredeseilanden, about sustainability.

Drawing : Nathalie Hunter

Music: Jo Hermans

Video: Nathalie Hunter & Bart Cabanier

Postproduction: Bart Cabanier

To announce De Warande’s new season. On air in cinema’s till may 2012.

And here one of the microkosmos videos.

</br><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/23034433″>microkosmos</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user5325461″>nathaliehunter</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

I’m represented  by edprojects, and the show is about leaving / arriving.

So be prepared to travel!

I’ll show the piece microkosmos and some stills from the video (original drawings)

Come and visit us in Hotel Bloom, near the Botanique, tomorrow and sunday.