Art, Nature, and the Language of Alluvial Gold

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As the human relationship with the environment evolves into the 21^st century, so to do the artistic languages we evoke to understand it. These emergent languages are often tinged with urgency-a necessary aesthetic response to the existential threat of climate change. At other times, these languages are solemn-the merger of art and worship, due reverence paid to the ubiquity the natural world and its many unknowns. Inevitably, these languages are complex, renouncing any easy answer to the question of our role in nature's blueprint. My most favourite works of art and nature are irreducible and elegantly holistic, a foil to the discrete and transparent languages of science.