His works will explore humankind’s relationship to the so called natural world and he proposes looking beyond the nature culture dualism. In the artworks science, design, architecture and art provide tools for contextual analysis on how human activities and natural processes merge.
In his new exhibition Irish artist Eamon O'Kane presents new prints which explore memory, psychology and the natural world. The screen prints in the exhibition take their inspiration from the Baum Test, which is also known as the "Tree Test" and is a projective test developed by Swiss psychologist Charles Koch in 1952. It is used extensively across the world as a method of analyzing an individual’s personality and underlying emotional history. The prints are also inspired by another better known psychoanalytic tool the Rorschach or ink blot test. The prints are made from hand drawings of trees in Bergen and elsewhere in Scandinavia. O'Kane uses himself as a subject and prints the same mirrored trees over and over again entering in a meditative state in the process.
His works will explore humankind’s relationship to the so called natural world and he proposes looking beyond the nature culture dualism. In the artworks science, design, architecture and art provide tools for contextual analysis on how human activities and natural processes merge. He explores the work of among others Eileen Gray, Maria Montessori, Friedrich Froebel and Francis Bacon. The dualism evaporates through actual research practice. The artist is interested in challenging this dualistic point of view especially because of its paralyzing effect on environmental philosophy.