How can we reconnect with nature? To the profound nature of human and non-human things.
Inventing ways of reconnecting with the environment has become a major challenge, and one that is helping to create a new planetary consciousness.
And a new culture. Etienne Renzo's photographs of naked bodies merging with nature, including the shepherdess series, are part of this movement.
They are a fine response to consider. There's something bucolic and mythical about these images, which hark back to the Eden of a bygone pastoral era, when humans were still associated with their environment and with living things. Not so long ago, in fact, before the great bifurcation.
Here, bodies are intimately linked to the elements, to earth, air and water, but also to minerals, plants and animals. They exist in osmosis, that is, in reciprocity with their context. Captured in their simplest form, like their naked, naked animals, the shepherdesses are equals with their flock. What better way to feel alive and connected than in the nude? A great way to reconnect with nature.
That's why these images are also ecological, feminist and erotic.
So much so that the image itself becomes an instance of reconnection, through its own vitality and the energies it relays.
These photographs can be seen both as antidotes to the prevailing gloom and doom, and as healing images insofar as they transmit energies of salvific reconnection.
